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The Mormons and the Settlement of the West An Online Professional Development Seminar Elliott West Alumni Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas Research focuses on the American West and the American Indian We will begin

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We will begin promptly on the hour. The silence you hear is normal. If you do not hear anything when the images change, e-mail Caryn Koplik ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org for assistance.

The Mormons and the Settlement of the West

An Online Professional Development Seminar

Elliott West

Alumni Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas Research focuses on the American West and the American Indian

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FROM THE FORUM

  • What is the role and impact of the Mormons on US History
  • What resources are available to teach Mormon history in the high

school classroom

Mormons and the Settlement of the West

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Elliott West

Alumni Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas The Essential West: Collected Essays (2012) The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009) The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (1994) [Winner of five awards including the Francis Parkman Prize and PEN Center Award] The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1995) [Winner of the Western Heritage Award] Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier (1989)

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Mormons and the Settlement of the West

Introduction

  • To trace the origins and early history of the Church of Jesus Christ
  • f Latter Day Saints (Mormons), a major world religion that
  • riginated in the United States
  • To consider the role of the church in westward expansion and

settlement

  • To examine the conflicts between the church and the federal

government and parts of American society

  • To consider what those conflicts can tell us about the nation in the

19th century

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Joseph Smith’s Vision

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Smith’s Revelation

Just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me....I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name, and said, pointing to the other— THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, HEAR HIM!

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The Hill Cumorah

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The Book of Mormon

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The Tribes in America

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The Priesthood of Melchizedek

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Joseph Smith

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Zion in Missouri

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Polygamy Revelation

And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else. And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified. Mormon Doctrine and Covenants, 132:61-62

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Sidney Rigdon: “We Will Bear it No More”

For from this hour, we will bear it no more, our rights shall no more be trampled on with impunity. The man or the set of men, who attempts it, does it at the expense of their lives. And that mob that comes on us to disturb us; it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them till the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us. Sidney Rigdon, July 4, 1838

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Lilburn Boggs: “The Mormons…Must Be Exterminated”

The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace--their outrages are beyond all description. Governor Lilburn Boggs, October 27, 1838

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The First Expulsion

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Nauvoo

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John Bennett: The Mormon Conspiracy

[There is] a vast and deep laid scheme, upon their part, for conquering the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and of erecting upon the ruin of their present governments a despotic military and religious empire, the head of which, as emperor and pope, was to be Joseph Smith. John C. Bennett, History of the Saints

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June 27, 1844

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Brigham Young

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The Exodus to Zion

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Deseret

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Utah Territory

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Mormon Immigrants in New York

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Deseret Alphabet

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Handcarts to Zion: 1856-1860

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Handcart Account

Our old and infirm people began to droop, and they no sooner lost spirit and courage than death’s stamp could be traced upon their features....At first the deaths occurred slowly and irregularly, but in a few days at more frequent intervals, until we soon thought it unusual to leave a campground without burying one or more persons....Many a father pulled his cart, with his little children on it, until the day preceding his death. I have seen some pull their carts in the morning, give out during the day, and die before next

  • morning. . . . We traveled on in misery and sorrow day after day.

John Chislett Reminiscence of 1856

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Mormon Irrigation 1

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Mormon Irrigation 2

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Mormon Octopus

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Mormon Baptism of Indians

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The Remnant of Jacob

And my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 21:12

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A Popular View of Polygamy

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Washington Resisted

The fact is, these people repudiate the authority of the United States in this country, and are in open rebellion against the general government…We are by no means sure that we would be permitted to leave, for it is boldly asserted that we would not get away alive. David Burr, Surveyor General of Utah, 1857

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The Utah War

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Brigham Young Proclamation

We are invaded by a hostile force…to accomplish our overthrow and destruction….Martial law is hereby declared…and no person shall be allowed to pass or repass into or through or from this Territory without a permit from the proper officer. Brigham Young proclamation, 1857

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“We’ll Fight for God and Liberty”

What sound is that which now we hear Re-echoing from the plains! The troops, they say, are drawing near’ With all their wagon trains. They come with sword and rifle too And deadly bayonet And swear to exterminate the few Who dwell in Deseret Chorus: Then we’ll fight for God and Liberty Our powder keep from wet And when we’ve gained the victory We’ll rule in Deseret James Martineau, 1857

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The Army in Salt Lake City

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The Fancher Party

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Mountain Meadows Massacre

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Carleton at Mountain Meadows

The scene of the massacre, even at this late day, was horrible to look upon... Here and there, on every hand, for at least a mile in the direction of the road, by 2 miles east and west, there gleamed, bleached white by the weather, the skulls and bones of those who had suffered...a sight which can never be forgotten.

  • Maj. J. H. Carleton, May, 1859
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Massacre Monument

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Mormons at the Transcontinental

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Polygamy Rejected

We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice.... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land. William Woodruff, President, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, 1890

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Temple Square

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Final slide THANK YOU

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