The counties of Caldwell and Daviess were created for this group after its members were expelled from Clay County.
The counties of Caldwell and Daviess were created for this group after its members were expelled from Clay County. This group was officially designated as state enemies in a decree by Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs. One member of this group, Parley Pratt, was murdered in Arkansas by the Fanchers, while Sidney Rigdon gave an oration about a "war of extermination" against them. John Lee and Isaac Haight organized a militia of this group, which was aided by Paiute Indians in an 1857 attack on a wagon train. One leader of this group ordered the closing of a newspaper called the Expositor and was lynched in a local jail with his brother Hyrum. Following that, this group left Nauvoo and went on a "great migration" to the west. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was perpetrated by, for 10 points, what American religious group whose leaders included Joseph Smith and Brigham Young?
The counties of Caldwell and Daviess were created for this group after its members were expelled from Clay County.
Mormons [accept word forms; accept Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS]