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Claims made in "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"
The Missourians actually seemed committed to continuing their pursuit of a peaceful co-existence with the Mormons.
—One Nation Under Gods, p. 155
146
Claim
- Author's quote:"But after Smith arrived, the Mormons suddenly could not remember making an agreement to limit their settlements to one county."
Author's source(s) - None
147
Claim
- The author claims that "Twenty-first century Mormonism" promotes the idea that Cain, Abel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Noah lived in Missouri.
Author's source(s) - No source provided.
- It would be safe to say that Twenty-first century Latter-day Saints rarely discuss this issue. Nineteenth century and early twentieth century Latter-day Saints may have speculated on this.
150, 535n18 (PB)
Claim
- Did Oliver Cowdery accuse Joseph of having a "dirty, nasty, filthy affair" with Fanny Alger?
Author's source(s) - Oliver Cowdery, letter to Warren Cowdery, January 21, 1838.
151, 537n29-33 (PB)
Claim
- Did Joseph allow the formation of the Danites?
Author's source(s) - Hill 75.
- William Edwin Berrett, The Restored Church, 198.
- Sampson Avard, Correspondence, Orders, 97-98.
- Winn, 123.
- David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, 27-28.
- Danites
- Leland Gentry, The Danite Band of 1838, BYU Studies 14/4 (1974): 421—50.
151, 537n35-36 (PB)
Claim
- Did Sidney Rigdon give public approval to the Danites during a speech he delivered on June 17, 1838?
Author's source(s) - Winn, 124.
- Reed Peck, Reed Peck Manuscript, 3.
- Danites
- Leland Gentry, The Danite Band of 1838, BYU Studies 14/4 (1974): 421—50.
537n30 (PB)
Claim
- Author's quote:"Such historical revisionism is typical of Mormon historians, who must at all costs, preserve the integrity of early Mormon leaders."
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
152, 538n39 (PB)
Claim
- Did Joseph write in his private journal that he was aware of the Danite's purpose? Were these words then crossed out so that they wouldn't appear in the history of the Church?
Author's source(s) - Joseph Smith, Missouri Journal, 1838, March to September, under July 27, 1838. Reprinted in Jessee, The Papers of Joseph Smith, vol. 2, 262.
- Danites
- Leland Gentry, The Danite Band of 1838, BYU Studies 14/4 (1974): 421—50.
154, 538n49 (PB)
Claim
- D. Michael Quinn claimed that the Danites numbered between 800 and 1000 people.
Author's source(s) - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Signature Books, 1994), 479-485.
- Danites
- Leland Gentry, The Danite Band of 1838, BYU Studies 14/4 (1974): 421—50.
155
Claim
- Author's quote:"The Missourians actually seemed committed to continuing their pursuit of a peaceful co-existence with the Mormons."
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
156
Claim
- After Sidney Rigdon's July 4th sermon in Far West, the author claims that "long-buried suspicions were raised and old prejudices renewed."
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion
156
Claim
- Did Latter-day Saints plan to "take over" by voting?
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
- Does anyone plan to "take over" when they exercise their right to vote?
- Loaded and prejudicial language
156-157, 539n61 (PB)
Claim
- Author's quote:"...calling their attention to the fact that the Saints were 'horse thieves, liars, counterfeiters, and dupes.'"
Author's source(s) - LeSueur, 61.
- Was this indeed a "fact" as stated by the author?
- Loaded and prejudicial language
159
Claim
- According to the author, after driving the Saints from their homes, Bogart started to threaten the Saints "in their own territory."
Author's source(s) - Author's statement.
- Does the author mean to imply that those "Mormons" who were driven "from their homes" were not living "in their own territory?"
- Absurd claims
166
Claim
- The book fails to mention how General Lucas ordered Alexander Doniphan to execute Joseph Smith and other Church leaders at Far West, and how Doniphan refused to do so because he considered it "cold blooded murder."
Author's source(s) - N/A
167
Claim
- Author's quote:"...the evidence clearly revealed that Joseph had directed most, if not all, of the illegal activities in which the Saints had been engaged."
Author's source(s) - Author's opinion.
Further reading
| A FAIR Analysis of Critical Works |
- American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows— (Index of claims)
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
- Ashamed of Joseph: Mormon Foundations Crumble
- Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism/Inside Today's Mormonism — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Behind the Mask of Mormonism
- Specific works/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
- Specific works/By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
- Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
- Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
- Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
- Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History
- From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith — (Index of Claims)
- Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
- Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record
- Is the Mormon My Brother?
- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
- Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd edition)—(Index of claims)
- Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
- The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) — (Index of claims)
- Leaving the Saints
- Letters to a Mormon Elder
- Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
- Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
- The Mormon Mirage: Seeing Through the Illusion of Mainstream Mormonism
- Mormonism 101—Index of claims
- Mormonism (Kurt Van Gorden)
- Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)
- The Mysteries of Godliness—A History of Mormon Temple Worship
- Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims—Use of sources—Prejudicial language—Presentism—Mind reading—Censorship—Romance—Assumptions—Magick)
- New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
- New Mormon Challenge
- No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
- One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims—Use of Sources—Prejudicial language—Absurd claims—Presentism—Mind reading—Rewording—Omissions—Sarcasm)
- The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844
- Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
- Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
- The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
- Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
- Under the Banner of Heaven — (Index of claims)
- Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture
