• Preface

BOOK I. THE MORMON ORIGIN

• CHAPTER I. Facility of Human Belief
• CHAPTER II. The Smith Familiy
• CHAPTER III. How Joseph Smith Became a Money-Digger
• CHAPTER IV. First Announcement of the Golden Bible
• CHAPTER V. The Different Accounts of the Revelation of the Bible
• CHAPTER VI. Translation and Publication of the Bible
• CHAPTER VII. The Spaulding Manuscript
• CHAPTER VIII. Sidney Rigdon
• CHAPTER IX. "The Everlasting Gospel"
• CHAPTER X. The Witnesses to the Plates
• CHAPTER XI. The Mormon Bible
• CHAPTER XII. Organization of the Church
• CHAPTER XIII. The Mormons' Beliefs and Doctrines - Church Government

BOOK II. IN OHIO

• CHAPTER I. The First Converts at Kirtland
• CHAPTER II. Wild Vagaries of the Converts
• CHAPTER III. Growth of the Church
• CHAPTER IV. Gifts of Tongues and Miracles
• CHAPTER V. Smith's Ohio Business Enterprises
• CHAPTER VI. Last Days at Kirtland

BOOK III. IN MISSOURI

• CHAPTER I. The Directions to the Saints About Their Zion
• CHAPTER II. Smith's First Visits to Missouri - Founding the City and the Temple
• CHAPTER III. The Expulsion from Jackson County - the Army of Zion
• CHAPTER IV. Fruitless Negotiations with the Jackson County People
• CHAPTER V. In Clay, Caldwell, And Daviess Counties
• CHAPTER VI. Radical Dissensions In The Church - Origin Of The Danites - Tithing
• CHAPTER VII. Beginning Of Active Hostilities
• CHAPTER VIII. A State Of Civil War
• CHAPTER IX. The Final Expulsion From The State

BOOK IV. IN ILLINOIS

• CHAPTER I. The Reception Of The Mormons
• CHAPTER II. The Settlement Of Nauvoo
• CHAPTER III. The Building Up Of The City - Foreign Proselyting
• CHAPTER IV. The Nauvoo City Government - Temple And Other Buildings
• CHAPTER V. The Mormons In Politics - Missouri Requisitions For Smith
• CHAPTER VI. Smith A Candidate For President Of The United States
• CHAPTER VII. Social Conditions In Nauvoo
• CHAPTER VIII. Smith's Picture Of Himself As Autocrat
• CHAPTER IX. Smith's Falling Out With Bennett And Higbee
• CHAPTER X. The Institution Of Polygamy
• CHAPTER XI. Public Announcement Of The Doctrine Of Polygamy
• CHAPTER XII. The Suppression Of The Expositor
• CHAPTER XIII. Uprising Of The Non-Mormons - Smith's Arrest
• CHAPTER XIV. The Murder Of The Prophet - His Character
• CHAPTER XV. After Smith's Death - Rigdon's Last Days
• CHAPTER XVI. Rivalries Over The Succession
• CHAPTER XVII. Brigham Young
• CHAPTER XVIII. Renewed Trouble For The Mormons - "The Burnings"
• CHAPTER XIX. The Expulsion Of The Mormons
• CHAPTER XX. The Evacuation Of Nauvoo - "The Last Mormon War"
• CHAPTER XXI. Nauvoo After The Exodus

BOOK V. THE MIGRATION TO UTAH

• CHAPTER I. Preparations For The Long March
• CHAPTER II. From The Mississippi To The Missouri
• CHAPTER III. The Mormon Battalion
• CHAPTER IV. The Camps On The Missouri
• CHAPTER V. The Pioneer Trip Across The Plains
• CHAPTER VI. From The Rockies To Salt Lake Valley
• CHAPTER VII. The Following Companies - Last Days On The Missouri

BOOK VI. IN UTAH

• CHAPTER I. The Founding Of Salt Lake City
• CHAPTER II. Progress Of The Settlement
• CHAPTER III. The Foreign Immigration To Utah
• CHAPTER IV. The Hand-Cart Tragedy
• CHAPTER V. Early Political History
• CHAPTER VI. Brigham Young's Despotism
• CHAPTER VII. The "Reformation"
• CHAPTER VIII. Some Church-Inspired Murders
• CHAPTER IX. Blood Atonement
• CHAPTER X. The Territorial Government - Judge Brocchus's Experience
• CHAPTER XI. Mormon Treatment of Federal Officers
• CHAPTER XII. The Mormon "War"
• CHAPTER XIII. The Mormon Purpose
• CHAPTER XIV. Colonel Kane's Mission
• CHAPTER XV. The Peace Commission
• CHAPTER XVI. The Mountain Meadows Massacre
• CHAPTER XVII. After the "War"
• CHAPTER XVIII. Attitude of the Mormons During the Southern Rebellion
• CHAPTER XIX. Eastern Visitors To Salt Lake City - Unpunished Murderers
• CHAPTER XX. Gentile Irruption And Mormon Schism
• CHAPTER XXI. The Last Years of Brigham Young
• CHAPTER XXII. Brigham Young's Death - His Character
• CHAPTER XXIII. Social Aspects of Polygamy
• CHAPTER XXIV. The Fight Against Polygamy - Statehood
• CHAPTER XXV. The Mormonism of To-Day