Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others--including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith--the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.

Author: Benjamin E. Park
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/24/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781324091103
ISBN10: 132409110X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (
- Religion | Christianity | History
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO