Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 4

Fate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith: Transmutations of an American Myth

1978: Richard Poulsen “Fate and the Persecutors of Joseph Smith: Transmutations of an American Myth Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 11 No. 4 (1978): 63–70.

In the 1950s there was a book published call Fate of the Persecutors of Joseph Smith, which contains stories that have been part of folklore that have been passed down discussing what happened to the people who helped kill Joseph Smith.