That’s because The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just purchased the landmark Kirtland Temple as well as several significant buildings and documents in Nauvoo for more than $192 ...

Wagon train crossing the Platte River 1840s-1850s. Courtesy ... the period of relative calm the Mormon faithful had enjoyed in Nauvoo, Illinois, was coming to an end. In 1845 mob violence against ...

as it was during the Mormon period of the 1840s. For several years, Harrington, his wife, and other archaeologists spent their summers in Nauvoo, excavating no fewer than five historic sites ...