TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey,Miles
TI  - The king of confidence: a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch 
SN  - 0316463590
AV  - BX8680.S88 
U1  - 289.3092B 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Strang, James Jesse,
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mormons
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Beaver Island
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"
ER  -