- Country
- United States of America
Mississippi River
Summary
Principal U.S. river running southward from Itasca Lake, Minnesota, to Gulf of Mexico. Covered 3,160-mile course, 1839 (now about 2,350 miles). Drains about 1,100,000 square miles. Steamboat travel on Mississippi very important in 1830s and 1840s for shipping, transportation, and recreation. At least four steamboat landings utilized in Nauvoo, Illinois: Upper Stone House Landing, Kimball Landing, Lower Stone House Landing, and Nauvoo House Landing. River also utilized by Saints for performing baptisms and as source of food. Church owned modest freighting steamer, Maid of Iowa, which traversed entire Mississippi. Thousands of British converts immigrated to Nauvoo on river steamers from New Orleans, 1840–1846.
Links
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
- John Whitmer, History, 1831–circa 1847
- Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 8 April 1831
- General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, 7 February 1844
- Times and Seasons, 1 October 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 April 1842
- Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842
- Times and Seasons , 2 May 1842
- Account of Meeting, 23 May 1844
- Affidavit from Daniel Avery, 28 December 1843
- Affidavit from Dellmore Chapman, 6 December 1843
- Agreement with Daniel C. Davis, 21 October 1839
- Appendix 2: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 27 February 1845
- Appendix 3: Willard Richards, Journal Excerpt, 23–27 June 1844
- Appendix 4: William Clayton, Daily Account of Joseph Smith’s Activities, 14–22 June 1844
- Appendix 5, Document 4. Draft Notes, 1844
- Appendix 7: Council of Fifty, Minutes, 19 January 1846
- Bond from Horace Hotchkiss, 12 August 1839–B
- Bond to Justis Morse, 14 July 1840
- Bond to William White, 20 July 1840
- City Council Order, 30 January 1843–A
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 1, 10 March 1844–1 March 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
- Declaration, 21 June 1834
- Deed from Jacob Remick, 1 September 1842–A
- Deed from Jacob Remick, 1 September 1842–B
- Deed from William and Achsah White, 20 July 1840
- Deed to Arthur Millikin, 11 December 1841
- Deed to Ebenezer Robinson, 11 December 1841
- Deed to Lovina Smith and Others, 11 December 1841
- Discourse, 13 April 1843, as Reported by Willard Richards
- Discourse, 28 April 1842, as Reported by John McEwan
- Discourse, 6 April 1843–B, as Reported by Times and Seasons
- Discourse, 7 July 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1844
- Editorial, 15 July 1842–B
- History, 1838–1856, volume B-1 [1 September 1834–2 November 1838]
- History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 Addenda
- History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843]
- History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
- History, 1838–1856, volume F-1 [1 May 1844–8 August 1844]
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–A
- Index to Nauvoo City Council Minute Book–B
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 1, 21 December 1842–10 March 1843
- Journal, December 1841–December 1842
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 2, 10 March 1843–14 July 1843
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29 February 1844
- Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June 1844
- Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 13 March 1842
- Letter from Aldrich & Chittenden, 28 July 1842
- Letter from Brigham Young, 23 October 1843
- Letter from Dan Jones, 8 January 1844
- Letter from Don Carlos Smith and William Smith, 6 March 1839
- Letter from Emma Smith, 7 March 1839
- Letter from Fields Jarvis, 6 February 1843
- Letter from George W. Henry, 18 July 1841
- Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 January 1840
- Letter from Isaac Galland, 11 March 1843
- Letter from John Mills, 1 September 1843
- Letter from Levick Sturges and Others, 30 January 1842
- Letter from Lyman Wight and Heber C. Kimball, 19–24 June 1844
- Letter from Orson Hyde, 17 July 1841
- Letter from S. J. Wild, 30 April 1843
- Letter from Samuel McClanathan, 20 June 1844
- Letter from Sybella Armstrong, 1 May 1843
- Letter from Udney H. Jacobs, 6 January 1844
- Letter from Unknown Author, 6 May 1844
- Letter from William Clayton, 26 June 1844
- Letter to Brigham Young, 17–20 June 1844
- Letter to Edward Hunter, 5 January 1842
- Letter to Emma Smith, 16 August 1842
- Letter to Emma Smith, 4 June 1834
- Letter to John C. Bennett, 8 August 1840
- Letter to John McKee, 28 March 1843
- Letter to Justin Butterfield, 14 June 1843
- Letter to Thomas Ford, 23 June 1844
- Letter to William Thompson, 2 November 1839
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832
- Letterbook 2
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845
- Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1845
- Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 21 December 1843
- Military Order to Jonathan Dunham, 17 June 1844–B
- Minutes and Discourses, 5–7 October 1839
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 April 1842
- Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 April 1843
- Minutes, 28–29 August 1834
- Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 3 February 1841–8 February 1845
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February 1844–January 1845
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, February–December 1841
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, January–November 1842
- Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, November 1842–January 1844
- Note of Evidence, circa 15 November 1842 [ State of Illinois v. Brown and Edwards ]
- Ordinance, 1 June 1843–A
- Ordinance, 16 December 1843–B
- Ordinance, 8 December 1843–B
- Parley P. Pratt, History of the Late Persecution, 1839
- Petition from Ebenezer Robinson and Aaron Johnson, 15 January 1844
- Petition from John Hammond and Others, 18 October 1842
- Proclamation, 15 January 1841
- Proclamation, 25 March 1843
- Report of the First Presidency to the Church, 4 October 1840
- Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52]
- Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840
- Sidney Rigdon, Appeal to the American People, 1840, Second Edition
- Sidney Rigdon, JS, et al., Petition Draft (“To the Publick”), circa 1838–1839
- “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” December 1839–October 1840
- “Extract, from the Private Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.,” July 1839