The congregation was formed in the 1890s and a Mormon chapel was built in Northcutt Cove just north of Altamont in 1909.

Community of Christ chapel in Far WestFar West became a ghost town soon after the departure of most of the Mormon population.

It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

* April 6, 1830-When the church was organized, the Bible and Book of Mormon were unanimously accepted as scripture.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Atchison's law practice flourished, and his best-known client was Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr .. Atchison represented Smith in land disputes with non-Mormon settlers in Caldwell County and Daviess County.

When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.

The film, titled Tabloid, features interviews with Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who was convicted in absentia for the kidnap and indecent assault of a Mormon missionary in England during 1977.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

The Bill Cosby advertising campaign and the promotion of Jigglers was much more popular in Utah than in other areas, in large part due to higher birth rates among Mormon populations.

Near Independence, Missouri, it was taken as a sign to push the growing Mormon community out of the area.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,

Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, named after Mormon, the ancient prophet-historian who compiled the book, and on April 6, 1830, Smith founded the Church of Christ.

The relatively peaceful Utah War ensued from 1857 to 1858, in which the most notable instance of violence was the Mountain Meadows massacre, when leaders of a local Mormon militia ordered the killing of a civilian emigrant party that was traveling through Utah during the escalating tensions.

At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other LDS Presidents, who resisted efforts by the United States Congress to outlaw Mormon polygamous marriages.

Although black people have been members of Mormon congregations since Joseph Smith's time, before 1978, black membership was small.

There was no Greek or Latin upon the plates from which I, through the grace of God, translated the Book of Mormon.

To that latter end, Stanley R. Larson ( a Rasmussen graduate student ) set about applying modern text critical standards to the manuscripts and early editions of the Book of Mormon as his thesis project – which he completed in 1974.

In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied to obtain fine readings from otherwise unreadable pages and fragments.

Since the Cutlerites assert that the Nauvoo Temple was never truly completed — an allegation contested by the LDS and most other Mormon factions — they allege that the Latter Day Saint church existing from 1830 to 1844 was indeed " rejected " by God.

Before his death Roberts completed two biographies, eight historical narratives and compilations, and another dozen books about Mormon theology.

It is the sixth temple completed by the church, requiring 40 years to complete, and the fourth operating temple built since the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois.

Smith completed the Book of Mormon without retranslating the Book of Lehi, replacing it with what he claimed was an abridgment taken from the " Plates of Nephi.

The pace of the transcription increased dramatically so that within two months nearly the entire remainder of the manuscript of the Book of Mormon was completed.

The lake was formed by the Mormon Flat Dam, which was completed in 1925 after two years of construction.

Weeks did not see the temple completed, because Young insisted that he accompany the Mormon migration west so that he could design a new temple when the Mormons found a place to settle.

While routing the railroad along the Weber River, Mormon workers signed the Thousand Mile Tree, to commemorate the milestone.

Small groups of Mormon pioneers followed and attempted to settle east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River.

The Pony Express built many of their eastern stations along the Oregon / California / Mormon / Bozeman trails and many of their western stations along the very sparsely settled Central Route across Utah and Nevada.

The Gila Trail going along the Gila River in Arizona, across the Colorado River and then across the Sonora Desert in California was scouted by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain Philip St. George Cooke's Mormon Battalion in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole way.

Increased traffic of emigrants along the related Oregon, Mormon and California trails, beginning in the early 1840s, heightened competition with Native Americans for scarce resources of water and game in arid areas.

The city was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails.

Like most Mormon communities along the Idaho-Utah border, early settlers believed they were in the Territory of Utah.

From the 1830s to the 1860s, the area saw a great deal of traffic due to the Mormon Trail, which passed along the north bank of the Platte River.

Miners residing at the mouth of Gold Canyon noted Colonel Reese and his party passing along the Carson River as they headed for the Sierra foothills to establish Mormon Station, later called Genoa.

In 1845, following the succession crisis in the Latter Day Saint movement, Sidney Rigdon ( one of the three main contenders along with James Strang and Brigham Young for leadership of the Latter Day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith, Jr .) took his followers to Pennsylvania and formed a Rigdonite Mormon settlement at Greencastle.

Before being permanently settled by Mormon pioneers in 1848, the area where Murray City is presently located was a natural area that served as the seasonal home of Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock Native American tribes who camped along local creek banks and stream beds during their migrations.

Few white residents had settled along the San Juan River prior to the arrival of the Mormon pioneers from the San Juan Expedition.

A Mormon pioneer, Parley P. Pratt, was sent to this valley from Salt Lake City by Brigham Young in 1850 to check on the possibility of establishing settlements along the Weber River and the nearby Provo River.

Afton was founded by Mormon settlers along the Lander cutoff of the Oregon Trail.

At the same time the great push west along the newly opened Oregon Trail built up from a trickle of settlers in 1841 to a steady stream in 1844 – 1846, and then became a flood as the highly organized Mormon migration exploited the road to the Great Salt Lake discovered by mountain man Jim Bridger in 1847 – 1848.

Following the fur traders, the major emigration trails established along the north and south banks of the Platte and North Platte River were the Oregon ( 1843 – 1869 ), California ( 1843 – 1869 ), Mormon ( 1847 – 1869 ) and the Bozeman ( 1863 – 68 ) trails.

* Mount Pisgah ( Iowa ), a former settlement along the Mormon Trail that is now a state park, near Thayer, Iowa

This great snowfall, with its runoff, made possible the Mormon success story here, leading to a prosperous urban strip of some 25 cities along nearly of mountain frontage.

The Indians, their traditional way of life disrupted and in retaliation for outrages suffered at the hands of emigrants, engaged in raiding of travelers along the trails and engaged in aggressive behavior toward Mormon settlers.

California, Mormon, Oregon and Bozeman Trails along North Platte River

Following the fur traders, the major emigration trails established along the north and south banks of the North Platte River were the Oregon ( 1843 – 1869 ), California ( 1843 – 1869 ), Mormon ( 1847 – 1869 ) and the Bozeman ( 1863 – 68 ) Trails.

Casper was established about 1860 east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built about 1859 during the mass migration along the Oregon, California, Mormon and Bozeman Trails.

From the 1840s through the 1860s hundreds of thousands of emigrants made their way west along the Oregon, California and Mormon emigration trails.