| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Letters form obscurity -- Prophets of Pentecost -- The seventh angel speaks -- Threats in desperation -- The millennial hope -- The gathering storm -- The storm descends -- The last revelation -- Aftermath -- Exodus -- The Soda Springs settlement -- The Prophet Cainan -- The left win of the great eagle : Nevada and California -- The Walla Walla Jesus -- Deer Lodge : the heavenly city -- The Deer Lodge Jesus |
| Summary |
LeRoy Anderson in 1981 first published, under the title For Christ Will Come Tomorrow, his definitive study of a charismatic, millenarian prophet and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Most High. He told there of a Mormon posse's 1862 attack on the Morrisite compound, killing Joseph Morris, and of the continuing Morrisite movement, which survived into the mid-twentieth century. In this newly revised edition, Anderson revisits his subject by referring to more recently discovered documents, considering other scholars' continuing work on Morris's sect and related subjects, and exami |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Morris, Joseph, 1824-1862.
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| SUBJECT |
Morris, Joseph, 1824-1862
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Morris, Joseph, 1824-1862 fast |
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Church of the First Born (Morrisites) -- History.
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Latter Day Saint churches -- History
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Church of the First Born (Morrisites) -- Biography
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Latter Day Saints -- Biography
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Morrisite War, 1862.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Church of the First Born (Morrisites)
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Mormon Church
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Mormons
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010013163 |
| ISBN |
0874217881 |
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9780874217889 |
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