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of Sealing--Necessity of Sealing as a Means of Salvation--Attempt to
show that Christ was a Polygamist

CHAPTER XII.
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE EXPOSITOR: Dr. Foster and the
Laws--Rebellion against Smith's Teachings--Leading Features of the
Expositor--Trial of the Paper and its Editors before the City
Council--Destruction of the Press and Type--Smith's Proclamation

CHAPTER XIII.
UPRISING OF THE NON-MORMONS: Resolutions Adopted at
Warsaw--Organizing and Arming of the People--Action of Governor
Ford--Smith's Arrest--Departure of the Prisoners for Carthage

CHAPTER XIV.
THE MURDER OF THE PROPHET: Legal Proceedings after his
Arrival in Carthage--The Governor and the Militia--The Carthage Jail
and its Guards--Action of the Warsaw Regiment--The Attack on the
Jail and the Killing of the Prophet and his Brother--Funeral Services in
Nauvoo--Final Resting-place of the Bodies--Result of Indictments of
the Alleged Murderers--Review of the Prophet's Character

CHAPTER XV.
AFTER SMITH'S DEATH: The People in a Panic--The Mormon
Leaders for Peace--The Future Government of the Church-- Brigham
Young's Victory--Rigdon's Trial before the High Council-- Verdict
Against Him--His Church in Pennsylvania--His Ambition to be the
Head of a Distinct Church--A Visit from Heavenly Messengers--His
Last Days

CHAPTER XVI.
RIVALRIES OVER THE SUCCESSION: The Claim of the Prophet's
Eldest Son--Trouble caused by the Prophet's Widow--The Reorganized
Church--Strang's Church in Wisconsin--Lyman Wight's Colony in
Texas

CHAPTER XVII.
BRIGHAM YOUNG: His Early Years--His Initiation into the Mormon
Church--Fidelity to the Prophet--Embarrassments of his Position as
Head of the Church--His View about Revelations--Plan for Home
Mission Work--His Election as President

CHAPTER XVIII.
RENEWED TROUBLE FOR THE MORMONS: More Charges of
Stealing--Significant Admission by Young--Business Plight of
Nauvoo--More Politics--Defiant Attitude of Mormon Leaders--An
Editor's View of Legal Rights--Stories about the Danites--Brother
William on Brigham Young--The "Burnings"--Sheriff Backenstos's
Proclamations--Lieutenant Worrell's Murder--Mormon Retaliation--
Appointment of the Douglas-Hardin Commission

CHAPTER XIX.
THE EXPULSION OF THE MORMONS: General Hardin's
Proclamation--County Meetings of Non-Mormons--Their Ultimatum--
The Commission's Negotiations--Non-Mormon Convention at
Carthage--The Agreement for the Mormon Evacuation

CHAPTER XX.
THE EVACUATION OF NAUVOO: Major Warren as a Peace
Preserver--The Mormons' Disposition of their Property--Departure of
the Leaders hastened by Indictments--Arrival of New Citizens--

Continued Hostility of the Non-Mormons--"The Last Mormon War"--
Panic in Nauvoo--Plan for a March on the Mormon City--Fruitless
Negotiations for a Compromise--The Advance against the City--The
Battle and its Results--Terms of Peace--The Final Evacuation

CHAPTER XXI.
NAUVOO AFTER THE EXODUS: Arrival of Governor Ford-- The
Final Work on the Temple--The "Endowment" Ceremony and Oath--
Futile Efforts to sell the Temple--Its Destruction by Fire and
Wind--The Nauvoo of To-day
BOOK V. THE MIGRATION TO UTAH

CHAPTER I.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE LONG MARCH: Uncertainty of their
Destination--Explanations to the People--Disposition of Real and
Personal Property--Collection of Draft Animals--Activity in Wagon
and Tent Making--The Old Charge of Counterfeiting--Pecuniary
Sacrifices of the Mormons in Illinois

CHAPTER II.
FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE MISSOURI: The First Crossings
of the River--Camp Arrangements--Sufferings from the Cold--The
Story of the Westward March--Motley Make-up of the
Procession--Expedients for obtaining Supplies--Terrible Sufferings of
the Expelled Remnant--Privations at Mt. Pisgah

CHAPTER III.
THE MORMON BATTALION: Extravagant Claims Regarding it
Disproved--General Kearney's Invitation--Source of the Initial
Suggestion--How the Mormons profited by the Organization--The
March to California--Colonel Thomas L. Kane's Visit to the
Missouri--His Intimate Relations with the Mormon Church

CHAPTER IV.

THE CAMPS ON THE MISSOURI: Friendly Welcome of the
Mormons by the Indians--The Site of Winter Quarters--Busy Scenes on
the River Bank--Sickness and Death--The Building of a Temporary
City

CHAPTER V.
THE PIONEER TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS: Early Views of the
Unexplored West--The First White Visitors to that Country--
Organization of the Pioneer Mormon Band--Rules observed on the
March--Successful Buffalo Hunting--An Indian Alarm--Dearth of
Forage--Post-offices of the Plains--A Profitable Ferry

CHAPTER VI.
FROM THE ROCKIES TO SALT LAKE VALLEY: No Definite
Stopping-place in View--Advice received on the Way--The Mormon
Expedition to California by Way of Cape Horn--Brannan's Fall from
Grace--Westward from Green River--Advance Explorers through a
Canon--First View of Great Salt Lake Valley--Irrigation and Crop
Planting begun

CHAPTER VII.
THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES: Their Leaders and Make-up
--Young's Return Trip--Last Days on the Missouri--Scheme for a
Permanent Settlement in Iowa--Westward March of Large Companies
BOOK VI. IN UTAH

CHAPTER I.
THE FOUNDING OF SALT LAKE CITY: Utah's First White
Explorers--First Mormon Services in the Valley--Young's View of the
Right to the Land--The First Buildings--Laying out the City--Early
Crop Disappointment--Discomforts of the First Winter-- Primitive
Dwelling-places--The Visitation of Crickets--Glowing Accounts sent to

England

CHAPTER II.
PROGRESS OF THE SETTLEMENT: Schools and Manufactures
--How the City appeared in 1849--Sufferings during the Winter of
1908--Immigration checked by the Lack of Food--Aid supplied by the
California Goldseekers--Danger of a Mormon Exodus--Young's
Rebuke to his Gold-seeking Followers--The Crop Failure of 1855 and
the Famine of the Following Winter--The Tabernacle and Temple

CHAPTER III.
THE FOREIGN IMMIGRATION TO UTAH: The Commercial joint
Stock Company Scandal--Deceptive Statements made to