THE MISSOURI PERSECUTIONS

Cover has slight edge and corner wear Previous owner name; No one wrote LDS Church history like Elder B. H. Roberts. He was both an eyewitness to many of the events and a meticulous researcher. This book is one of his most acclaimed. It plainly details the Saints' settling the promised land of Zion, the reasons for the suspicions of their neighbors, the subsequent persecutions, and the exodus to Illinois. I Elder Roberts' unique, flowing style, he tells the story of: The search for Zion The mission to the Lamanites Discovering Adam-ondi-Ahman The Kirtland apostasy Zions' Camp Expulsions: Independence to Clay County to Far Wet to Illinois Betrayal - Liberty Jail The Battle of Crooked River Haun's Mill The Extermination OrderIn Elder Roberts words: "The one thought above all others in my mind has been to present to the youth of the Latter-day Saints a circumstantial account of their fathers, that they might know how much was endured by their fathers for the truth's sake; that they might learn to prize it for what it cost their fathers." ; 6" x 9"; 291 pages. …