Swimming in Deep Water: Mormon Nauvoo in 1842

This is the eighth volume of an epic series on family and Mormon history, covering the year 1842. Joseph Smith Jr. married at least thirteen more plural wives, all the time publicly denying the accusation in ex-Mormon John C. Bennett's expose, that he was a polygamist. This, as well as the rapidly expanding Mormon militia army (the Nauvoo Legion) and Nauvoo authoritarianism, contributed to growing anti-Mormon sentiment in the region. Charged with 1838 Missouri "crimes" (he had escaped from ...