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Posted by: Rowell back ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 07:23PM
Any book recommendations for reading about Nauvoo?

Any recommendations for reading about Nauvoo? I have a feeling there will be a trip planned to visit there next summer and thought I could lay some ground work with the wife learning the real history. She picked up Mormon Enigma briefly but was not interested in reading church history at that time. But now she has a vested interest in learning more about Nauvoo.

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Posted by: Law Clerk ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 07:52PM
Re: Any book recommendations for reading about Nauvoo?

Rough Stone Rolling
Nauvoo by Glen Leonard

Both cover everything you could ever need to know. The place is actually quite beautiful and interesting.

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Posted by: Prof. Plum ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 08:01PM
The Tanners' online book, "The Changing World of Mormonism", has great info. about Nauvoo, as does their site (links)

http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changecontents.htm (the pdf version is searchable)

Tanners' site: http://www.utlm.org/topicalindexb.htm#Nauvoo

Wikipedia references and links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo,_Illinois#References

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Posted by: me ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 08:28PM
Gregg's History of Hancock County

This book might be a bit rough for a TBM. The Nauvoo section is just one part of it. It is the BEST authoritative source from a non-Mormon perspective. And the 1880 publication date even further validates it. I had read about it quite a while ago, but never hoped to actually see it.

http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23304579M/History_of_Hancock_County_Illinois

I might just read much more, because I was raised there.

It is unmanageable as a download on my computer.

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Posted by: quinlansolo ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 09:22PM
Re: Nightfall at Nauvoo

Next best Book after No Man Knows My History.

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Posted by: jpt ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 09:42PM
Re: Any book recommendations for reading about Nauvoo?

If she's more interested now, don't discount "Enigma." That would be my first answer....

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Posted by: RPackham ( )
Date: December 02, 2010 11:43PM
I second "Nightfall at Nauvoo"

by exmormon historian Samuel Taylor (of the elite Mormon Taylor clan).

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