Nauvoo the Beautiful

"Simply but completely, the unforgettable story of Nauvoo, the City of Joseph the Prophet, is here told. The joys, pathos and grief within the city's life are recounted in sympathetic words. Twenty-four chapters set forth in interesting detail, the rise of the city from and inhospitable swamp to the third largest city in Illinois, and its final fall in to the hands of thieves and murderers..."