Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs

1978: Douglas D. Alder and Paul M. Edwards, “Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 11 No. 1 (1978): 19–31.

Within two years of his assasination, however, the Church was torn by succession struggles that led to dispersion. Almost a century and a half later, the whereabouts of many of these saints is still unknown.