Saints Stories

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  • Contents

  • Latter-day Saint Women and the Right to Vote

  • How the Latter-day Saint Young Women’s Organization Began

  • Building the St. George Temple

  • The First Latter-day Saint Mission to the Pacific

  • 1838: The Year the Saints Were Driven Out of Missouri

  • Emma Smith and the First Mormon Hymn Book

  • The Succession Crisis after Joseph Smith’s Murder

  • That We Might Be One: The Story of the Dutch Potato Project

  • This Grand Opportunity: Elizabeth McCune and the First Sister Missionaries

  • Our Homes Became the Sacrament Hall: Sabbath Day Worship During the Freeze

  • He Was Like a Shepherd: Home Teaching During the Freeze

  • You Can’t Close My Heart: Ghanaian Saints and the Freeze

  • The First Integrated Branches in South Africa

  • Break the Soil of Bitterness: One Woman’s Quest for Healing

  • Sealed Together: The Manaus Temple Caravan

1838: The Year the Saints Were Driven Out of Missouri


1838: The Year the Saints Were Driven Out of Missouri

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In 1838, the governor of Missouri issued an order to drive Latter-day Saints from the state or exterminate them. What led up to the order—and what happened after it?