Published from November 1854 to December 1855, the St. Louis Luminary was started by Apostle Erastus Snow, the Latter-day Saint leader over the region. The newspaper maintained contact among the memb
The exodus of the Mormon people from Illinois across the Great Plains to the Salt Lake Valley? was the most monumental movement of a people in the settlement of the American West. In 1846, the first p
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When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the banks of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority, having encountered persecution, violence, and forcible expulsio