Brigham Young biographer Leonard J ... By then, the practice of plural marriage had expanded beyond Joseph Smith's inner circle, and word of it had been passed by non-Mormon emigrants passing ...

Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached ... about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had first ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet ... When told he should practice plural marriage too, Brigham Young said, "It was the first time in my life that I desired the grave." ...

Joseph Smith announces a revelation setting up the ... Smith and most of his followers -- including a new member named Brigham Young -- leave Kirtland for Independence, Missouri, where Smith ...

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied ... 1865, from the Mormon Panorama. Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art Just a few months after the Mormon Church was founded ...