Nauvoo : a place of peace, a people of promise / Glen M. Leonard

CONTENTS: Joseph Smith's plan for Zion -- Finding a place of peace -- A beautiful place of rest -- Gathering the saints -- Nauvoo's magna charta -- The promise of prosperity -- Economic expectations -- Neighbors in Nauvoo -- A people of faith and destiny -- The house of the Lord -- Patriots and prophets -- A renewed search for refuge -- Foes within : the church of the seceders -- Joseph and Hyrum are dead -- Who shall lead the church? -- The peaceful interlude -- A solution to the "Mormon question" -- Leaving Nauvoo -- Transition and expulsion -- The new order of things -- The Nauvoo inheritance

Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Bk. Co. ; Provo, Utah : Brigham Young University Press, c2002

2002

xxiii, 828 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-786) and index