Essentials in Church History. Joseph Fielding Smith

The “Resistance of Law”

       Counter Proclamations

       Threats Against the Saints

       Attack Upon Nauvoo

       The Battle of Nauvoo

       Valiant Defenders

       The Violation of the Treaty

       Chapter 38

       Captain Allen’s Circular

       Scarcity of Able-Bodied Men

       The Equipment of the Battalion

       Death of Colonel Allen

       Lieutenant Smith in Command

       The Line of March

       The Families Ordered to Pueblo

       Colonel Cooke Takes Command

       The Sick Sent to Pueblo

       The March From Santa Fe

       Colonel Cooke’s Comment

       A Battle with Wild Bulls

       The Journey From Tucson

       “Orders No. 1”

       Duties on the Coast

       The Discharge of the Battalion—Stevenson’s Insult

       The Journey to Salt Lake Valley

       Chapter 39

       Revelation to President Brigham Young

       Cheerfulness Commanded

       The Pioneers

       The Departure for the West

       Organization of the Pioneer Camp

       Military Organization

       Division of the Watch

       Regulations of the Camp

       The Route of Travel

       Measuring the Distance

       Dangers on the Way

       Correspondence on the Plains

       Scientific Observations

       Crossing of the Platte

       The Mississippi Emigrants

       The Ferry at the Black Hills

       Discouraging Reports

       The Meeting with Samuel Brannan

       An Uninviting Country

       Arrival of the Battalion Members from Pueblo

       Orson Pratt’s Vanguard

       “This is the Place”

       Chapter 40

       The First Sabbath in the Valley

       President Young’s Advice

       Explorations of the Valley

       A Place for an Ensign

       The Building of a City

       The Place for the Temple

       Orson Pratt’s Survey

       Arrival of the Battalion and Mississippi Members

       Renewal of Covenants