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4+ Timpanogos people Attack on an encampment of Timpanogos families after they took some Mormon cattle [34] 1850 Provo, Utah: Provo River massacre: 40–100 Timpanogos people, 1 Mormon person Mormon settlers laid siege to an encampment of Timpanogos families on the Provo River, and executed men who surrendered. [35] 1851 Skull Valley, Utah
Guns that Browning produced as a Mormon gunsmith were labeled "Holiness to the Lord - Our Preservation". The Jonathan Browning Home and Gunshop built in 1842 was restored during the 1960s. Registered with the Ensign Peak Foundation -- formerly The Mormon Historic Sites Foundation -- the museum is open to the public at no charge. [3]
Missouri Executive Order 44 (known as the Mormon Extermination Order) was a state executive order issued by Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838, in response to the Battle of Crooked River.
Davis Bitton (1994) "The Ritualization of Mormon History," in The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), 171–187. Bushman, Richard (2007). On the Road with Joseph Smith: An Author's Diary. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books. Terryl L. Givens (2007), People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture.
Rockwell was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, to Orin and Sarah Witt Rockwell, on June 25, 1813. [2]By coincidence, Ethan Smith, an influential clergyman with no relation to Latter-day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith but whose writings likely influenced the church, was born in Belchertown 51 years before Rockwell.
The 1838 Mormon War, also known as the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict between Mormons (Latter Day Saints) and other residents of northwestern Missouri from August 6 to November 1, 1838. Founded in upstate New York in 1830, the Latter Day Saint movement rapidly expanded in Missouri through organized migration.
The mayor at the time encouraged this move because most citizens had already owned guns. Click through the gallery below to 9 foods that harder to buy than a gun More from AOL.com:
(D & C 57:3) Latter Day Saints began to settle the area to "build up" the City of Zion in 1831. Settlement was rapid and non-Mormon residents became alarmed that they might lose political control of the county to the Latter Day Saints. In October 1833, non-Mormon vigilantes succeeded in driving the Mormons from the county.