Item: BK111
Title: Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
Author: Richard S. Van Wagoner
Publisher: Signature Books
Suggested Donation: US $29.00
Date: 1994
Pages: 493

Summary

Great biography of a controversial minister who joined Mormonism in November of 1830. Rigdon's influence on Smith and Mormonism is shown to be far more than has been acknowledged in the past.

Contents

Section 1: The Baptist Years

Chapter

  1. Peters Creek
  2. The Western Reserve
  3. Pittsburgh
  4. Bainbridge
  5. Mentor

Section 2: Ohio

  1. Prelude to Kirtland
  2. The Law of the Lord
  3. The New Jerusalem
  4. Tarred and Feathered
  5. The Literary and United Firms
  6. Book of Mormon Authorship
  7. Loss of Zion
  8. The Kirtland Temple
  9. Financial Disaster
  10. Exiled to the Land of Milk and Honey

Section 3: Missouri

  1. Victims No More
  2. Zion
  3. Jail

Section 4: Illinois

  1. Appeals for Redress
  2. From Swamp to City
  3. Between Family and Friends
  4. Dissembling the Truth
  5. The Prophet's Mantle
  6. Excommunication

Section 5: Pennsylvania

  1. Pittsburgh
  2. Antrim Township

Section 6: New York

  1. Exiled in Friendship
  2. Children of Zion
  3. Elect Sisterhood
  4. The Final Quest