Introduction: Persecution in the most odious sense of the word / Thomas M. Spencer -- The Missouri context of antebellum Mormonism and its legacy of violence / Kenneth H. Winn -- Reassessing Joseph Smith's appointed time for the redemption of zion / Ronald E. Romig and Michael S. Riggs -- Mormonism, millenarianism, and Missouri / Grant Underwood -- The great temple of the New Jerusalem / Richard O. Cowan -- The Mormon Temple site at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri / Alexander L. Baugh -- Was this really Missouri civilization?: the Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri and Mormon history / Thomas M. Spencer -- But for the kindness of strangers: the Columbia, Missouri, response to the Mormon prisoners and the jailbreak of July 1839 / Jean A. Pry and Dale A. Whitman -- Lessons learned: the Nauvoo Legion and what the Mormons learned militarily in Missouri / Richard E. Bennett -- Between the borders: Mormon transmigration through Missouri, 1838-1868 / Fred E. Woods.
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