Reviews of old books

[_MCB]

Here is a very obscure one. Note that I could not find it at Google.

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23304579 ... y_Illinois

Right now I am reading Linn, and will then go on to Froiseth, then read the relevant portions of Gregg.

[_MCB]

I found a real goodie on p. 342 of Gregg. It is a document that says that the Mormons voluntarily chose to remove themselves from Hancock county. This move was totally voluntary.

We had commenced making arrangements to remove from this county previous to the recent disturbances;...all are determined to remove to some distant point where we shall neither infringe nor be infringed upon, as soon as time and means permit....If these testimonies are not sufficient to satisfy any people that we are in earnest, we will soon give them a sign that cannot be mistaken---we will leave them! [Signed,] Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Clerk.

They were not forced to go to Utah. It was voluntary, although perhaps expedient.

There were a lot of murders during this time, and radicalization on both sides. Few prosecutions.

[_Wisdom Seeker]

I wonder how many of those murders were committed by Danites in an effort to cleanse the various rival Mormon factions that seemed to be developing?

[Guest]

Well, you can look for yourself. It seems to me that the Danites and the ultra-Anties were violently in conflict with each other. However,

The Strangites, Rigdonites, Smithites, and Twelveites, still behind, kept up their dissentions, the former all agreeing in denunciation of the latter, and all, except the later, censuring the Western movement.

Seems like any conflicts among the emerging factions were only verbal. p. 345

The state government commissioned a council of citizens of nine counties of Western Illinois, (except for Hancock) to mediate.

[_MCB]

A copy of the Nauvoo city charter is included in the text, for the lawyers among us to debate.

[_MCB]

John Bennett's book, if you download it from Google books, is incomplete. Quite a few of the pages are missing. I don't know if there is a pattern. However, if you view it online, those missing pages are there, faded. Example is one page, 99, which is very interesting from my perspective.

http://books.google.com/books?id=0lY3AA ... sm&f=false

[_madeleine]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50819 ... e.html.csp

[_MCB]

Thanks, Rebecca. I will get busy on those.

I have made many revisions to my main project, and am waiting for ILL for a book that Chris recommended, and Jockers et al's new study.

I am polishing up the "Creative Restoration" I have added chapter headings to it, and ran a readability on it-- seventh grade. That is very encouraging.

Approved people can send me a pm if they want the current revision.

[_LDS truthseeker]

Another good one: http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/ ... Chap0.html