by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[Joseph] Smith and the major leaders of the church were sent to Liberty Jail, awaiting trial for a list of crimes that would have guaranteed their execution. They never spent a day in court, however, because they broke out of jail. On 16 April 1839, the...
by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Mormon army, called the Danites, didn’t let the Missouri militia stop them. The Danites organized a party and ambushed the militia at Crooked River. The Danites sneaked out of the woods, fired volleys of gunfire at the militia, and then charged them with...
by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Mormons didn’t take losing [the town of] DeWitt lying down. The next day, 100 Mormons marched back into the town of Gallatin and told the people to leave. First, they robbed the stores, and then they set the town on fire. Another group went on to Millport,...
by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
After the ‘anti-banking’ debacle, “[t]he dissenters left, but they weren’t happy about it. They went to neighboring towns, complaining that their property had been stolen by the Mormons and that they had been cast out of their homes—all of which got...
by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The Mormon Church once had its own bank. Technically, they weren’t allowed to get a bank charter, but they found a loophole that made it work. They set up an ‘Anti-Banking Company’—a company that did everything a bank did except call itself a bank....
by Dan Wees | Jul 20, 2018 | Miscellaneous
