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Traitors & Tyrants:
A gritty, fast-paced story about the Missouri-Illinois chapter of LDS history. Captivating characters paint a vivid portrait of the human capacity for meanness, malice, friendship and love. A story you won’t want to put down.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2005
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Russell Jones
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July 16, 2016
In Missouri, 1839, the Mormon Church was trying to find a place where they could be accepted. Unfortunately, while America was the land of opportunity for most, many people found that prejudice, fear and hatred were alive and well.
This book manages to give a name and face to the largely unknown populace that suffered in one of many chapters not covered in our American history textbooks at school. We have a young man that grew up on a farm on the Missouri frontier, who did his best to be a good man. We have two young women that suffered at the hands of people that saw their difference and lack of protection as an opportunity.
The tribulations of the characters closely mirrors other, unmentioned, chapters in American history. Some examples of this include problems between the Quakers and the Puritans or the deliberate attempted genocide of the native people. As with these cases, and many others, there was deliberate misinformation spread concerning the conduct of the people targeted. Some of the ideas spread concerning the early Mormon’s is covered in this book, also. While this is a work of fiction, this book does a good job of illuminating and personalizing a very sad chapter of American History.
This book manages to give a name and face to the largely unknown populace that suffered in one of many chapters not covered in our American history textbooks at school. We have a young man that grew up on a farm on the Missouri frontier, who did his best to be a good man. We have two young women that suffered at the hands of people that saw their difference and lack of protection as an opportunity.
The tribulations of the characters closely mirrors other, unmentioned, chapters in American history. Some examples of this include problems between the Quakers and the Puritans or the deliberate attempted genocide of the native people. As with these cases, and many others, there was deliberate misinformation spread concerning the conduct of the people targeted. Some of the ideas spread concerning the early Mormon’s is covered in this book, also. While this is a work of fiction, this book does a good job of illuminating and personalizing a very sad chapter of American History.
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