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Smith, Joseph Jr.

Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Smith, Joseph, parentage and birth, 40; spiritual manifestations, marriage, persecutions, translates plates, organizes church, 1820-30, 40-70; missionary work 1830-34, 74-110; tarred and feathered, 92; banking operations, 113; starts newspaper, 115; persecuted, 122-31; in prison, 139; founds Nauvoo, 141; actions at, 1840-4, 143-88; revelation on polygamy, 160; candidate for presidency, 168; arrest and murder, 175-83; character, 184-88.
Brief Chronology of Joseph Smith — 1805-1844 (A) Compiled by Sandra Tanner
Changing World, Joseph Smith (Chapter 17)
- Changing World, A Fighting Prophet
- Changing World, General Smith
- Changing World, "The Greatest Egotist"
- Changing World, Smith Ordained King
- Changing World, Joseph Smith for President
- Changing World, Greater than Jesus?
- Changing World, Destruction of Expositor
- Changing World, Like a Lamb?
Death
- #88 Messenger, Trouble in Nauvoo
- #106 Messenger, Smith's Death
- Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Smith, Joseph, arrest and murder, 175-83
- Changing World, Destruction of Expositor
- Changing World, Like a Lamb?
- John Hay Atlantic Monthly Article
- Joseph Smith's Death
First Vision
- #71 Messenger, Problems All Over
- #78 Messenger, Dunn Like Smith?
- #87 Messenger, Joseph Smith's Vision
- #99 Messenger, First Vision or Fraud?
- #100 Messenger, Suppressed First Vision Account
- #101 Messenger, First Vision
- #109 Messenger, First Vision Problems
- #109 Messenger, Charles Finney's Vision
- #121 Messenger, 8. First Vision.
- #122 Messenger, Grappling with the Past: LDS Church’s New Statements on Gospel Topics
  Changing World, The First Vision (Chapter 6)
- Evolution of the First Vision and Teaching on God in Early Mormonism
- Joseph Smith's Handwritten 1832 First Vision
- Mormon Claims Answered, The 1820 Revival and Joseph’s First Vision
- Mormon Claims Answered, First Vision Versions
History
- #63 Messenger, Joseph Smith's History
- #71 Messenger, Problems All Over
- #78 Messenger, An Extensive Forgery
- #100 Messenger, Joseph Smith's History
- #100 Messenger, Smith's Diaries and the History of the Church
- #106 Messenger, New Joseph Smith Movie: History or Propaganda?
- #114 Messenger, Joseph Smith—The Early Years
- Changing World, Changes in Joseph Smith's History (Chapter 13)
Importance of
- Importance of Joseph Smith in Mormonism (The)
Inspired Revision of the Bible
- #78 Messenger, "Drastically Changed"
- #78 Messenger, Moses or Joseph?
- #113 Messenger, Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible
- #116 Messenger, 2. Joseph Smith's Revision of the Bible
  - Formation of the Canon
  Changing World, "Inspired Revision'
- Changing World, Appendix B: The New Mormon Bible
- Mormon Claims Answered, Mormonism’s Inspired Bible
Kinderhook plates*
Kirtland Bank
- Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Kirtland Safety Soc. Bk established, 113
- Joseph Smith's Kirtland Bank Failure
  - Kirtland Bank 3 dollar bill "Bank" (photo)
  - Kirtland Bank 3 dollar bill "Anti-Banking Co." (photo)
Masonry*
- Captain Morgan and the Masonic Influence in Mormonism
- Changing World, Joseph Smith Becomes a Mason
Mental Illness
- #90 Messenger, Joseph Mentally Ill?
Methodist Church
- #95 Messenger, Smith and the Methodists
- Mormon Claims Answered, Inconsistency about Church Membership
- Mormon Prophet Attempts to Join the Methodists (The)
Military
- #88 Messenger, A Fighting Prophet
- #100 Messenger, Political Kingdom of God
- Changing World, General Smith
Money-Digging and Magic
- #36 Messenger, Walters Writes on 1826 Trial
- #49 Messenger, Mormonism and Magic
  - Suppressed Document?
  - The Gold Plates And Magic Characters
  - Enoch's Gold Plate
- #58 Messenger, Smith's 1826 Trial
- #59 Messenger, Jesus And Joseph
- #65 Messenger, Magic in Mormonism
  - A Magic Cover-Up
- #68 Messenger, State of New York vs. Joseph Smith
  - Frasier Magazine Quote
  - New Discoveries
  - Neely and De Zeng's Bills
  - Transcript Verified
  - An Examination?
  - Destroys Objections
  - Joseph Smith Guilty?
  - A Disorderly Person
  - Very Convincing
  - The Implications
- #81 Messenger, Mormons and Sacrifice
- #86 Messenger, Inventing Mormonism
- #95 Messenger, Was Joseph Smith a Magician?
- #100 Messenger, Joseph Smith's Occult Connection
- #100 Messenger, Mormonism and Magic
- #105 Messenger, Book of Mormon Plates: Artifact, Vision or Hoax?
  - Were the Plates Even Needed?
  - Urim and Thummim or Seer Stone?
- #106 Messenger, Joseph as Soothsayer
- #106 Messenger, Joseph Meets Emma
- #106 Messenger, Joseph the "Glass Looker"
- #106 Messenger, Emma's Father Objects to Marriage
- #106 Messenger, 1826 New York Court Documents Relocated
- #114 Messenger, 2. The Smith Family and Magic
- Changing World, Joseph Smith and Money-Digging (Chapter 4)
  - Changing World, Book of Mormon from the Stone
  - Changing World, Money-Digging and the Book of Mormon
  - Changing World, Working With the Rod
  - Changing World, Joseph Smith's Magic Talisman
- Interview with John H. Gilbert from The American Bookseller
- Mormon Claims Answered, The 1826 Trial
- Tracking the White Salamander, Documents on Money-Digging
- Tracking the White Salamander, Mark and Joseph (Chapter 7)
Polygamy*
- #66 Messenger, A Tangled Web
- #66 Messenger, Other Men's Wives
- #81 Messenger, Why In Utah?
- #94 Messenger, A Strange Revelation
- #94 Messenger, In Sacred Loneliness
- #94 Messenger, Marrying a Child
- #94 Messenger, Taking Other Men's Wives
- #100 Messenger, Joseph Smith and Polygamy
- #100 Messenger, Secret Polygamy Revelations
- #106 Messenger, Smith Introduces Polygamy
- #106 Messenger, Number of Wives
- #106 Messenger, Were the Marriages Consummated?
- #106 Messenger, Emma's Problems with Polygamy
- #106 Messenger, Plural Marriage Essential
- #112 Messenger, Sacred Marriage or Secret Affair? Joseph Smith and the Beginning of Mormon Polygamy
  - A Double Standard
  - Joseph Smith's Wives Chart
  - Nauvoo, Illinois
  - Publicly Exposed
  - When Did Emma Know?
  - The Revelation
  - Virgins or Married Women?
  - Presenting the Revelation to the Nauvoo Stake High Council
  - Events Leading to Joseph's Death
  - Nauvoo Expositor Destroyed
  - Joseph's Widows
  - Smith's Legacy
- #121 Messenger, 2. Polygamy and polyandry.
- #121 Messenger, 3. Was it right and Christ-like to force women into polygamous marriages?
- #124 Messenger, Problems in the LDS Essays on Plural Marriage
  - Gospel Topics Essays
  - Essay: Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  - 1831 Polygamy Revelation
  - 1835 Doctrine and Covenants
  - Public Denial
  - Smith's Children?
  - 14-Year-Old Girls
  - Large Families?
  - Polygamy Illegal
  - Restoration of All Things
  - Concubines
  - Motivation for Recording the Revelation
  - Threatened by an Angel
  - Secrecy
  - The Nauvoo Expositor
- Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents):
  - Hale, Emma, marries Joe Smith 1826, 45
  - Smith, Joseph, revelation on polygamy, 160
- Changing World, Number of Wives
- Changing World, Taking Other Men's Wives
- Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 (Polygamy Revelation)
- Indian Polygamy Revelation
- Joseph Smith's Boasting and Polygamy Denial Sermon
Prophecies (see also Doctrine & Covenants)
- #71 Messenger, Changing Revelations
- #110 Messenger, The Gathering to Zion
- #118 Messenger, PLAYING FAIR? An Evaluation of Joseph Smith's "Rocky Mountain Prophecy"
- Changing World, False Prophecy (Chapter 14)
- Joseph Smith's "White Horse" Prophecy
- Mormon Claims Answered, Prophecies in the Doctrine and Covenants
- Mormon Claims Answered, Other Prophecies by Smith
- Sample of Joseph Smith's False Prophecies (A)
Sermons
- Joseph Smith's Boasting and Polygamy Denial Sermon
- Joseph Smith's King Follet Sermon
- Joseph Smith's Role as 'Prophet' in View of the King Follet Discourse
- Joseph Smith's Sermon On Plurality of Gods
Tracking the White Salamander, Mark and Joseph (Chapter 7)
Word of Wisdom*
- Changing World, Joseph's Example
- Changing World, Joseph Smith's Bar

Splinter Groups

Bancroft's History of Utah: Schisms and Apostasies (Chapter 23)
- Gladdenites
  - Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Gladdenites, the, sect of, 643-4; denounced by Young, 644.
- Godbeites
  - Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents):
  - Godbe, W. S., grant to, 609; trial 647-9; biog., 651; interview with Prest Grant, 638.
  - Godbeite movement, success of, 647-55
- Morrisites
  - Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Morris, Joseph, doctrine of, 615; warrant against, 616; defeat and death of, 617-18.
- Strangites
  - Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Strangites, the, sect of, 641.

Tanner, Jerald and Sandra [In Memoriam: Jerald Tanner]

#36 Messenger, Repudiates Book of Mormon
#43 Messenger, The Changing World
#49 Messenger, FBI Wins Suit
#56 Messenger, Tanners' Riches
#65 Messenger, Our Ancestry Questioned
#94 Messenger, A Surprising Development!
#100 Messenger, Threats
#100 Messenger, Are the Tanners Communists?
#108 Messenger, Jerald Tanner's Quest for Truth - Part 1
#109 Messenger, Jerald Tanner's Quest for Truth - Part 2
Associated Press Article on Tanners
Changing World of Mormonism (The)
Changing World Testimony
Charisma article: "The Bravest Woman in Utah" (.pdf) by John Draper
Reprinted with permission from Charisma & Christian Life, June, 2006. Copyright Strang Communications Co., USA. All rights reserved. www.charismamag.com
General FAQ: Is it true that the Tanners recanted everything they've said and returned to the LDS Church?
In Memoriam: Jerald Tanner
Tanner Bibliography
- Tanner Bibliography 1959–2019 (A) (PDF) by H. Michael Marquardt

Temple Ceremony

Terminology [see Terminology Differences by Sandra Tanner]

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Videos

Sandra Tanner Interviews

Walters, Wesley P.

Word of Wisdom (The)

Whitmer, David

Young, Brigham

#119 Messenger, Did Brigham Young Teach False Doctrine?
Adam-God Doctrine*
Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Young, Brigham, sent to Missouri, 104; apostle, 111, 344-5; signs memorial, 134; at New York, 142; issues address, 192; pres. of church, biog., actions of, 1844-5, 193-213; circular, 215; joins immigrants, 218; activity, 249-51; at Salt Lake, 1847, 261, 283; rebaptized, 265; revelation, 267; supt of camps, 282; thanks battl., 286; issues currency, 291; denounces Cal. emigration, 303-4; founds Ogden, 307; message, 1852, 327; grist-mill, 327; in England, 406; gov. of ter., 443, 455-6; grants to, 451, 609; opposes U. S. survey, 464; as a dictator, 481-2; promotes co., 483; reappointed gov., 493; actions for defence, 503; reception of Van Vliet, 505-9; proclamation, 509; investigates Mtn Meadows massacre, 558; threatened arrest, 572-3; dispute, with U. S. officials, 610; denounces Gladdenites and Godbeite movement, 644-8; last days of, 656-76; arrested, 663; death, 669; character, 672-4; will, 675-6; woollen-mill, 732; pres. U. Cent. R. R., 756.
Blood Atonement*
Deseret Alphabet
- Bancroft's History of Utah (Contents): Deseret alphabet, hist. of, 712-14; characters, 713
- Brigham Young's Deseret Alphabet
Finances*
- #63 Messenger, Avoiding the Problem
- Brigham Young's Estate
Polygamy*
Racism*
Sermons
Word of Wisdom*
- Brigham Young's Speech on Tobacco, Journal of Discourses Vol. 9, p. 31-40
- Changing World, Brigham Young's Distillery

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