In early June 1844, the first -- and only -- issue of The Nauvoo Expositor appears. Published by a Mormon opposed to plural marriage, the newspaper exposes Joseph Smith's secret practice of polygamy.

By the close of Mormonism’s first decade, several had done just that, believing that Smith was consolidating too much ...

Did the Mormons really think for themselves or did Joseph Smith think for them?" The cycle of violence climaxed in 1844 in Nauvoo, Ill., when Smith was killed by an angry mob. Following Smith's ...

Meanwhile the average Mormon, who is fighting as hard for his ... who was killed by the same Illinois mob that lynched Joseph in 1844.* The new patriarch is 43, father of five, heads the ...