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Episode 17: Missouri and the Camp of Israel

The residents of Missouri become anxious as the Church grows both in numbers and in strength. Two teenage girls, Mary Elizabeth and Caroline Rollins, risk their lives to save pages of the newly printed Book of Commandments. These events and the challenges of Zion’s Camp are discussed in detail by Matthew C. Godfrey, managing historian and general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers.

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Chapters Discussed in This Episode:

• Chapter 16: Only a Prelude

• Chapter 17: Though the Mob Kill Us

• Chapter 18: The Camp of Israel

Associated Church History Topics:

• American Legal and Political Institutions

• Book of Commandments

• Daily Life of First-Generation Latter-day Saints

• Dissent in the Church

• Endowment of Power

• Healing

• Jackson County Violence

• Opposition to the Early Church

• Revelations of Joseph Smith

• Slavery and Abolition

• Zion’s Camp (Camp of Israel)

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