Obscure Believers

by Young, Biloine Whiting

• ISBN13: 9781880654279
• ISBN10: 188065427X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Pogo Pr

Summary

Engaging story of a vanished Minnesota community with roots in early Mormonism. Ms. Young tells the tale with consumate skill and deep respect for the small band who struggled the last half of the nineteenth century to establish and maintain stable communal life against the tides of social change. Steeped in Cutlerite traditions and lore, she weaves tale that will mesmerize any reader interested in American religions and the history of Minnesota, southern Iowa, and western Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Robert Flanders
Preface	9	(4)
The Significance of Names in the Cutlerite Tradition	13	(4)
The Departure	17	(5)
Mormonism---Conversion and Conflict	22	(13)
Nauvoo---Doomed Kingdom on the Mississippi	35	(13)
The Break with Brigham Young and the Mission to the Indians	48	(12)
Invasion of the Josephites	60	(16)
Flight to the Wilderness	76	(17)
Founding Clitherall	93	(21)
Self-Reliance on the Frontier	114	(14)
Dissension and the Works of Evil Spirits	128	(10)
Cutlerites and Lamanites	138	(19)
Wolves in the Sheepfold---the Second Josephite Invasion	157	(17)
The Death of Old Clitherall	174	(11)
Return to Zion	185	(10)
Ghosts of Nauvoo Haunt Old Clitherall	195	(8)
Epilogue	203	(12)
Endnotes	215	(8)
Bibliography	223	(6)
List of Illustrations and Maps	229	(2)
Index	231