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61
Sharp would prove . . . a formidable enemy
: Thomas Gregg,
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws,
vol. 2 (Chicago: Chapman, 1880), p. 750.
63
“Come, Josey, fork over”
: Marshall Hamilton, “Thomas Sharp’s Turning Point: Birth of an Anti-Mormon,”
Sunstone
(October 1989), p. 21.
63
“make us feel right bad”
: Warsaw
Signal
, June 9, 1841.
63
“How
military
these people are”
: Ibid., July 21, 1841.
64
a powerful voting bloc
: Ibid., June 23, 1841.
64
“Mormon Joe and his Danite seraglio”
: Ibid., July 31, 1844, and August 25, 1846.
64
William entered the fray
: D. Michael Quinn,
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994), p. 220.
65
the first issue of the Nauvoo
Wasp
: For accounts of April 6, see Jerry C. Jolley, “The Sting of the Wasp: Early Nauvoo Newspaper—April 1842 to April 1843,”
BYU Studies
22 (4) (1982); Marshall Hamilton, “Thomas Sharp’s Turning Point: Birth of an Anti-Mormon,”
Sunstone
(October 1989); Annette Hampshire, “Thomas Sharp and Anti-Mormon Sentiment in Illinois, 1842–1845,”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
72 (May 1979); Fawn Brodie,
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet
(New York: Vintage Books, 1995), p. 288.
67
“We care not a fig”
:
Times and Seasons
, December 10, 1841.
67
“He is not as fit as my dog”
: New York
Sun
, July 28, 1840.
68
Cyrus Walker, “the greatest criminal lawyer”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 5, p. 431ff.; Brodie,
No Man Knows,
p. 348.
68
perfidious Missouri sheriffs
: Lyman Omer Littlefield,
Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints
(Logan: Utah Journal, 1888), p. 128.
69
“I understand the gospel”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 5, p. 472.
69
Hyrum Smith . . . made a startling announcement
: John Hallwas and Roger Launius,
Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois
(Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995), p. 87.
70
“Brother Hyrum tells me this morning”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 5, p. 526.
71
“From this time forth”
: Thomas Ford,
A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
(Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1845), p. 329.
71
Mormons had become political orphans
: Roger Launius, “American Home Missionary Society Ministers and Mormon Nauvoo: Selected Letters,”
Western Illinois Regional Studies
(Spring 1985).
72
“Mormonism is exerting a great . . . influence”
: Clyde Buckingham, “Mormonism in Illinois,”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
32 (2) (June 1939).
72
“most dangerous and virulent enemies”
: Matthew Bowman,
The Mormon People
(New York: Random House, 2012), p. xvi.
72
“the pretended prophet”
: Warsaw
Message
, September 13, 1843.
72
penchant for “consecrated thieving”
: Michael S. Riggs, “From the Daughters of Zion to ‘The Banditti of the Prairies’: Danite Influence on the Nauvoo Period,”
Restoration Studies
7 (1998), p. 96.
73
Joseph condemned stealing
: Two excellent sources on Mormon stealing are ibid., and William Shepard, “Stealing at Mormon Nauvoo,”
John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
(2003).
73
accusations of counterfeiting
: Quinn,
The Mormon Hierarchy
, p. 127.
74
“an excellent specimen of base coin”
: Joseph Jackson,
Adventures and Experiences of Joseph Jackson: Disclosing the Depths of Mormon Villainy in Nauvoo
(Warsaw, IL, 1846), p. 11ff.
75
“We cannot talk about spiritual things”
: Leonard Arrington,
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830–1900
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), p. 425.
75
Nauvoo’s autarkic civil government
: George Moore, “Diary, 1842–1844,”
Western Illinois Regional Studies
5 (1982), p. 175.
76
detailing Joseph’s inglorious past
: Marshall Hamilton, “MONEY-DIGGERSVILLE—The Brief Turbulent History of the Mormon Town of Warren,”
John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
9 (1989).
77
Joseph responded with a tirade
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 4, p. 486ff.
5. P
OLYGAMY AND
I
TS
D
ISCONTENTS
82
Joseph explained to Mary
: Mary Rollins’s story is told in Todd Compton,
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), chap. 8; Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery,
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1994), p. 65ff.
84
the original polygamy revelation of 1831
: Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma
, p. 65.
85
Joseph had been confiding his thoughts
: Richard Van Wagoner, “Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo,”
Dialogue—A Journal of Mormon Thought
18 (Fall 1985).
86
Polygamy was not an idea that
: Richard Bushman,
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), p. 275.
86
“wonderful lustful spirit”
: George D. Smith,
Nauvoo Polygamy
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 532.
88
Emma “did not believe a word”
: Smith, George D., ed.,
An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995), p. 110; Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma,
p. 152.
88
Emma “was more bitter”
: Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma
, p. 144.
88
“blood would flow”
: Smith,
An Intimate Chronicle
, August 16, 1843.
88
Despite her many humiliations
: D. Michael Quinn,
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), p. 163.
89
“I felt of the plates”
: Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma
, p. 25.
89
During his nine-month-long jail term
: Ibid., pp. 144, 170.
89
raven-haired poetess Eliza Snow
: Fawn Brodie,
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet
(New York: Vintage Books, 1995)
,
p. 471; Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma
, p. 134.
89
“Straight from hell, madam”
: Newell and Avery,
Mormon Enigma
, p. 171.
89
Emma Smith’s horrified reaction
: J. Lewis Taylor, “John Taylor: Family Man,” in
Champion of Liberty: John Taylor,
ed. Mary Jane Woodger (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009).
90
“very repugnant to my feelings”
: Leonard Arrington,
The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992), p. 222.
91
Jennetta, died just two years later
: Devery Anderson, “‘I Could Love Them All,’ Nauvoo Polygamy in the Marriage of Willard and Jennetta Richards,”
Sunstone
171 (June 2013).
91
Smith eventually married dozens of wives
: Compton,
In Sacred Loneliness,
p. 616.
93
Nauvoo required a girl to be fourteen
: John S. Dinger, ed.,
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 65.
93
“I would never have been sealed to Joseph”
: Smith,
Nauvoo Polygamy,
p. 198ff.
93
People change
: Helen Mar Whitney,
Why We Practice Plural Marriage
(Salt Lake City: Office of the Juvenile Instructor, 1884).
94
adventure . . . befell Apostle Orson Pratt
: Marvin Hill,
Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 118.
94
the Twelve excommunicated both Pratts
: Richard Van Wagoner, “Sarah M. Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate,”
Dialogue—A Journal of Mormon Thought
19 (Summer 1986), p. 77.
95
“You must not be a doctor here”
:
Salt Lake Tribune,
July 31, 1887.
95
“No man could be better fitted”
: Lyndon W. Cook,
William Law: Biographical Essay; Nauvoo Diary; Correspondence; Interview
(Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994).
96
Law brothers led a flying squad
: B. H. Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
2nd ed., rev., vol. 5 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978), p. 431ff.
96
“a honest upright man”
: Cook,
William Law,
p. 55.
96
“All hail to our Chief!”
:
Times and Seasons
, February 15, 1843.
96
“If an angel from heaven”
: Cook,
William Law
, p. 37.
97
“He would have shot”
: Ibid., p. 133.
97
“endeavored to seduce my wife”
: Ibid., p. 128.
99
“Poor, weak woman!”
: Charlotte Haven, “A Girl’s Letters from Nauvoo,”
Overland Monthly
16 (December 1890).
99
“Whether we view Joseph”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 6, p. 42.
99
“a delightful habitation”
: Scott H. Faulring, ed.,
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 308.
100
“we began here first”
: Robert Bruce Flanders,
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1965), p. 188.
100
Foster arrived home one evening
: Brodie, Fawn.
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet
. (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), p. 371.
100
“‘You,’ shaking his fists”
: Scott H. Faulring, ed.,
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 474.
101
“I have seen him steal”
:
Times and Seasons
, May 15, 1844.
101
Foster pulled a pistol
: Richard Bushman,
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), p. 532.
101
“notorious in this city”
: Wagoner, “Sarah M. Pratt,” p. 77.
101
“too indelicate for the public eye”
:
Times and Seasons
, May 15, 1844
101
Chauncey had been severed from the church

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