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050 1 4 _aBX8680.S88
082 0 4 _a289.3092
_aB
092 _aBIO STRANG
100 1 _aHarvey, Miles,
_d1960-
245 1 4 _aThe king of confidence :
_ba tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch /
_cMiles Harvey.
246 3 0 _aTale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch.
250 _aFirst Edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _aix, 401 pages :
_billustrations, maps, portraits ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue. In which an angel watches a man fall from a window in Illinois, then flies to Wisconsin with pressing business.
520 _a"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"
_c--Provided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aStrang, James Jesse,
_d1813-1856.
610 2 0 _aChurch of Jesus Christ (Strangites)
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aMormons
_zMichigan
_zBeaver Island.
651 0 _aMichigan
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 7 _aTrue crime stories.
_2lcgft.
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft.
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