Episode 1: Mobs, Elections, and Kidnappings
Road to Carthage: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
The Anti-Mormon Confluence in Missouri
Rumors that Latter-day Saints were stealing horses and other property from their neighbors. Some church members chose to ignore the repeated statements from church leaders urging them to obey the law. Two captured thieves helped hatch a plot to kidnap two men named Daniel and Philander Avery in 1843.
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