It will not be converted into a functioning Latter-day Saint temple ... River from Nauvoo. “I also have some very dear friends who work in the [LDS] Church History Department, and I have ...

On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

But the group is soon caught up in the middle of an undeclared war between Indigenous nations, the U.S. government, pioneers heading west and the newly powerful Mormon church, its Nauvoo militia ...