Richard E. Bennett

RICHARD E. BENNETT is head of the Department of Archives & Special Collections of the University of Manitoba Libraries in Winnipeg. This paper was delivered at the annual meeting of the Mormon History Association, May 1985, at Independence, Missouri. His forthcoming book, tentatively entitled "And Should We Die: Mormons at the Missouri 1846- 52," has been accepted for publication in 1987 by the University of Oklahoma Press. This essay was awarded DIALOGUE'S third prize in the history category, 1985.