The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch /
Harvey, Miles, 1960-
The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch / Tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch. Miles Harvey. - First Edition. - ix, 401 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index.
Prologue. In which an angel watches a man fall from a window in Illinois, then flies to Wisconsin with pressing business.
"In 1843, James Strang vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king"
0316463590 9780316463591
2019952531
Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856.
Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites)--History--19th century.
Mormons--Michigan--Beaver Island.
Michigan--History--19th century.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
BX8680.S88
289.3092 B
The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch / Tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch. Miles Harvey. - First Edition. - ix, 401 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index.
Prologue. In which an angel watches a man fall from a window in Illinois, then flies to Wisconsin with pressing business.
"In 1843, James Strang vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's leader, Joseph Smith, Strang unveiled a letter purportedly from the prophet naming him successor, and persuaded hundreds of fellow converts to follow him to an island in Lake Michigan, where he declared himself a divine king"
0316463590 9780316463591
2019952531
Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856.
Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites)--History--19th century.
Mormons--Michigan--Beaver Island.
Michigan--History--19th century.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
BX8680.S88
289.3092 B