but his assassination made it clear that the period of relative calm the Mormon faithful had enjoyed in Nauvoo, Illinois, was coming to an end. In 1845 mob violence against the Mormon community ...

A part of the Center for Hancock County History, the Mormon Collection contains a wide variety of materials relating to the Mormon era in Nauvoo (1839-1846). Because of the interest in this period in ...

Did the Mormons really think for themselves or did Joseph Smith think for them?" The cycle of violence climaxed in 1844 in Nauvoo, Ill., when Smith was killed by an angry mob. Following Smith's ...