After Joseph Smith’s death in 1844, the young Mormon Church faced chaos, betrayal, and the question of who would lead next.
In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...
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