The Martyrdom Remembered: A One-Hundred-Fifty-Year Perspective on the Assassination of Joseph Smith - Hardcover

Bitton, Davis

9781562362133: The Martyrdom Remembered: A One-Hundred-Fifty-Year Perspective on the Assassination of Joseph Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1562362135 ISBN 13: 9781562362133

Publisher: Aspen Books, 1994

The Martyrdom Remembered brings together one hundred and fifty years of personal and public reactions to and recollections of the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. Beginning with the diaries and letters of the Saints at Nauvoo and abroad, we here a story of a people stunned with astonishment and grief at the news from Carthage. The early Mormon poets began publishing their laments four days after the event. In our own century, the martyrdom has been portrayed again and again is histories, novels, poetry, and art. This volume shows that one hundred and fifty years after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum in Carthage Jail we continue to remember.

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