Footnotes
See Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, pp. [2]–[3], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; and [Rigdon], Appeal to the American People, 36–37; see also Perkins, “Prelude to Expulsion,” 264–268; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 144–145; and LeSueur, “Missouri’s Failed Compromise,” 140–144.
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Perkins, Keith W. “De Witt—Prelude to Expulsion.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Missouri, edited by Arnold K. Garr and Clark V. Johnson, 261–280. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1994.
Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).
LeSueur, Stephen C. “Missouri’s Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons.” Journal of Mormon History 31, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 113–144.
Root owned part of the plat for De Witt, near the Missouri River. (Carroll Co., MO, Deed Records, 1819–1929, bk. A, pp. 234–238, 367–368, microfilm 959,374, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, pp. [2]–[3], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; [Rigdon], Appeal to the American People, 36; see also Perkins, “Prelude to Expulsion,” 264–268.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Perkins, Keith W. “De Witt—Prelude to Expulsion.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Missouri, edited by Arnold K. Garr and Clark V. Johnson, 261–280. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1994.
Far West and other Mormon settlements in Caldwell County were situated on Shoal Creek and its tributaries. Shoal Creek ran into the Grand River, which ran into the Missouri River at De Witt. (See Berrett, Sacred Places, 4:286; and Hamer, Northeast of Eden, 18–19, 30–31.)
Berrett, LaMar C., ed. Sacred Places: A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1999–2007.
Hamer, John. Northeast of Eden: A Historical Atlas of Missouri’s Mormon County. [Mirabile, MO]: Far West Cultural Center, 2004.
A network of influential “old-settlers” in northwestern Missouri believed that the Latter-day Saints should be driven from the area or that their settlement should be confined to Caldwell County. (Anderson, “Clarifications of Boggs’s Order,” 30–39.)
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Clarifications of Boggs’s ‘Order’ and Joseph Smith’s Constitutionalism.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Missouri, edited by Arnold K. Garr and Clark V. Johnson, 27–83. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1994.
Located at the confluence of the Grand and Missouri rivers, De Witt was a strategic site for facilitating Mormon participation in regional commerce. The Saints in the Far West area could haul agricultural products by wagon to Adam-ondi-Ahman, ship them on the Grand River to the De Witt landing, and from there send them on the Missouri River to other markets. (Riggs, “Economic Impact of Fort Leavenworth,” 130.)
Riggs, Michael S. “The Economic Impact of Fort Leavenworth on Northwestern Missouri, 1827–1838. Yet Another Reason for the Mormon War?” In Restoration Studies IV: A Collection of Essays about the History, Beliefs, and Practices of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, edited by Marjorie B. Troeh and Eileen M. Terril, 124–133. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1988.