A President, a Church, and Trails West

A President, a Church, and Trails West
Author: Jon E. Taylor
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826266444

"Examines the efforts of Independence, Missouri, to preserve and balance competing elements of the city's history: as the hometown of President Harry S. Truman; as the site where Joseph Smith established the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and as the historic gathering place for western emigration"--Provided by publisher.

Mormon Thoroughfare

Mormon Thoroughfare
Author: Marlene C. Kettley
Publisher: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Mormon Church
ISBN: 9780842526524

Latter-day Saint missionaries entered Illinois in the year 1830. This book tells of the conversion of future apostle Charles C. Rich, Zion's Cmap, the Kirtland Camp, and the Saints' exodus from Missouri to Quncy, Illinois.