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Jim Kjelgaard. The Coming of the Mormons
The Coming of the Mormons
Table of Contents
The Coming of the Mormons
1. Trouble In Illinois
2. A New Leader
3. The Start
4. Across Iowa
5. Winter Quarters
6. Into The West
7. "Thousand Dollar Corn"
8. "This Is The Place"
9. The Beginning
10. The First Winter
11. The War Of The Crickets
12. The Empire Grows
13. The Mormons And The Indians
14. The Echo Canyon War
15. What The Mormons Did
Index
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Jim Kjelgaard
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Again the great sorrow, the all-enfolding sympathy, crept over his face. But it was still not sorrow for himself or sympathy for himself. In all his life this man, strong enough to found a completely new religion and to make it thrive in the face of increasing persecution, had never had a single thought for himself.
From the beginning he had hoped for peace for his people, not the constant war which so far had been their lot. He had sought to lead the Mormons to peace in New York, in Ohio, in Missouri, and finally, here in Illinois. Apparently peace was hard to find.
