the violence grew so bad that modern textbooks call it the Missouri Mormon War. The ugliest episode happened that year, when at least 17 Latter-day Saints were massacred at a place called Haun’s ...

I recently met Walter J. Zabek at a luncheon at Cox South Hospital honoring Meals on Wheels volunteers. As our paths briefly crossed — I was hustling out to get back to work — he asked me if ...

But the Mormons would be driven from western Missouri after violent conflicts in 1833 and the 1838 Mormon War, with the governor ordering an ‘extermination order’ against them. Smith escaped a ...

Most recently, the LDS church has built a temple in Kansas City, Mo., near the epicenter of the Mormon War. But Missouri also serves to highlight the intractable differences between mainstream ...

The tension culminated in the Missouri Mormon War of 1838. Joseph Smith had relocated to Missouri by that time, and resettled in Far West, Mo. Settlers in the area appealed to Missouri Gov.

Later, conflicts with other settlers resulted in the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, and an executive order signed by then-Gov. Lilburn Boggs stating that "The Mormons must be treated as enemies ...

A large portion of the Mormon settlers were coming from areas that had already abolished slavery whereas in Missouri, slavery was still alive and well. Other impacts that the Mormon movement ...

But there was no war, at least not ... By the time he arrived in Missouri that January, non-Mormons were assaulting Mormons and raiding their settlements; a secret Mormon group called the Sons ...

The State of Deseret After a number of deadly conflicts in Missouri and Illinois and the ... Casualties of the Mormon War Fears of occupation sent many of those living within the Utah Territory ...

Missouri carries a bloody bullet point in the ... spurring fights that ignited the 1838 Mormon War. Over the next three months, Mormons and anti-Mormons would raid and pillage one another ...