THE KIRTLAND ECONOMY REVISITED : A MARKET CRITIQUE OF SECTARIAN ECONOMICS (STUDIES IN MORMON HISTORY, NO. 3)

Cover has some light edge and corner wear. ; January 1838, Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, leaders of the Mormon church, used the cover of darkness to flee Kirtland, Ohio, with an angry mob at their heels. Behind them were disgruntled creditors, disillusioned Church members, and civil authorities who denounced them and sought to bring them to court. What had been a seemingly prosperous community made up largely of optimistic Mormons less than a year before was now torn with factiona village which most planned to abandon. ; 5.5" x 8.25"; 88 pages.