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Learn more about blood atonement teachings
Key sources
Online
  • Alex Baugh, "A Call To Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri" (Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1996), 68–102.off-site
  • Russell C. McGregor, "Wild Bill Rides Again: The Tanners on the Danites," (March 1999) off-site
    Analysis of an article about the Danites and Blood Atonement by Jerald and Sandra Tanner.
  • Dean C. Jessee and David J. Whittaker, "The Last Months of Mormonism in Missouri: The Albert Perry Rockwood Journal," Brigham Young University Studies 28 no. 1 (1988), 11–15. PDF link
  • Rebecca Foster Cornwall and Leonard J. Arrington, "Perpetuation of a Myth: Mormon Danites in Five Western Novels, 1840–90," Brigham Young University Studies 23 no. 2 (Spring 1983), 147–165. PDF link
  • Leland H. Gentry, "The Danite Band of 1838," Brigham Young University Studies 14 no. 4 (Summer 1974), 421–450. PDF link
  • Lowell M. Snow, "Blood Atonement," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1:131.
  • David J. Whittaker, "Danites," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1:356–357. direct off-site
  • David J. Whittaker, "The Book of Daniel in Early Mormon Thought," in By Study and Also by Faith: Essays in Honor of Hugh W. Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March 1990, ed. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 1:155–201. ISBN 0875793398. Vol. 1 off-site Vol. 2 off-site
Video
  • "Blood atonement and capital punishment," BH Roberts Foundation print-link. Video version: "Did the Church use to murder apostates through blood atonement?,"  (29 March 2024). video-link.
Print
  • B.H. Roberts, "Brigham's Blood Atonement," Compiled by Sam Katich (November 2002)
    B.H. Roberts reporting of miscellaneous events from the years 1851-1857 that deal with the topic of blood atonement and the 1889 Manifesto of the Presidency and Apostles that denounce the allegations of the practice.
  • Charles W. Penrose, Blood Atonement, As Taught by Leading Elders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, 1884).
  • Davis Bitton, "'I'd Rather Have Some Roasting Ears': The Peregrinations of George Armstrong Hicks," Utah Historical Quarterly 68/3 (Summer 2000): 196–222.
  • Gustave O. Larson, "The Mormon Reformation," Utah Historical Quarterly 26/1 (January 1958): 44–63.
  • Howard C. Searle, "The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857" (M.S. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1956).
  • Michael Orme, "The Causes of the Mormon Reformation of 1856-57." Tangents III (1975): 15-43.
  • Mike Parker, Did Brigham Young Say that He Would Kill an Adulterous Wife with a Javelin?
  • Paul H. Peterson, "The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857: The Rhetoric and the Reality," Journal of Mormon History 15 (1989): 59–87.
  • Paul H. Peterson, "The Mormon Reformation," PhD Dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1989, 176–199.
  • Thomas G. Alexander, "Wilford Woodruff and the Mormon Reformation of 1855-57," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 15 (Summer 1992): 25-39. (needs URL / links)
  • Leland Homer Gentry, "A History of the Latter-Day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839," (Unpublished PhD thesis, Brigham Young University, 1965), 317–364. (Hard copy available from UMI Dissertation Express; order number 6509857.)
  • FAIR Topical Guide: Blood atonement FAIR link
  • FairMormon Topical Guide: Danites FairMormon link
  • Bruce R. McConkie, "Blood Atonement Doctrine," in Mormon Doctrine, 2nd edition, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 92–93. GL direct linkGL direct link
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