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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. By Valeen Tippetts Avery . (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xiv, 357 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-252-02399-4. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-252-06701-0.)

Here is another book in the fast growing Mormon historiography. Valeen Tippetts Avery's first tome was a coauthored biography of Emma Hale Smith, the first wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr. This volume deals with Joseph and Emma's third son, David Hyrum Smith, who was born soon after his father's 1844 assassination. David joined a family divided between his father's followers in Illinois and the Smiths who went to Utah with Brigham Young in 1846. David was an evangelist with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (rlds) in Illinois, led by his brother Joseph Smith III. . . .

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