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    "As half the church fell away in Ohio, the Taylors escaped to Missouri with the faithful just in time for the 1838 Mormon War. John's role became that of an advocate with Congress—to convince them that it was non-Mormons who sacked the county seat and burned their own homes, for instance....

    "Taylor's eventual tenure as church president was spent 'on the dodge' from federal marshals,... Among his greatest achievements was the settlement of nearly as much territory as that colonized by his more famous predecessor, Brigham Young." (from back cover)

Table of Contents

Chapter

1. The Strange Death of Brigham Young
2. "Where is our Philip?"
3. Crisis in Kirtland
4. Expel or Exterminate
5. "A Going Among the Mulberry Trees"
6. The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
7. Winter Quarters
8. The Promised Land
9. Years of the Locust
10. Mission I: Fried Froth
11. Mission II: "Damn Miserable Company"
12. To Make a Spoon or Spoil a Horn
13. The Latter-Day Joshua
14. The Kingdom or Nothing
15. The Beam and the Mote
16. "A System is on Trial"
17. The Ghost of Brigham Young
18. Jubilee
19. The Gardo House
20. "In the Marriage Relation"
21. Skunks and Cohabs
22. The DO
23. The Thousand Cuts
24. The Last Pioneer