Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied away from making ... Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art Just a few months after the Mormon Church was founded in 1830 ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Courtesy: Brigham Young University Museum of Art. January 12 ... increasing anti-Mormon feeling. Joseph Smith will eventually have more than 25 wives, while Young will come to embrace the doctrine ...

Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...