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| − | ==Question==
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| − | *Critics claim that Joseph Smith was panicking at Carthage Jail, and wrote an order to Jonathan Dunham (head of the Nauvoo legion), telling him to attack the jail and "save him at all costs" (Brodie, 392). What can you tell me about this?
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| − | ===Source(s) of the Criticism===
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Abanes:One Nation|pages=199, 547-548n131-132}}
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Brodie:No Man Knows|pages=392}}
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Quinn:Mormon Hierarchy|pages=141, 179}}
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| − | =Response=
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| − | ==The critics and their sources==
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| − | There are two basic 'streams' of this theory.
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| − | ===Origins: Brodie===
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| − | The first derives from Fawn Brodie (1945):
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| − | Other authors have followed Brodie. Abanes (''One Nation Under Gods''), for example, merely quotes Brodie as his source.
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| − | Brodie's evidence derives from two sources:
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| − | * Allen J. Stout, manuscript journal, 1815-89, p. 13.
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Stenouse:Rocky Mountain Saints|pages=164n.}}
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| − | Brodie says that Stout's story "is confirmed" by Stenhouse, but Stenhouse mentions no names.{{ref|quinn.194}}
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| − | ===New wrinkle: Hofmann forgeries===
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| − | The second evidential stream draws on the first, but adds a new wrinkle. This wrinkle is one of the Hofmann forgeries.{{ref|roberts.92}} Mark Hofmann forged the supposed letter from Joseph to Dunham, and it was published in a collection of Joseph's personal writings before the forgery was discovered. The forged document reads:
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| − | Despite the fact that the document is a forgery, some historians have continued to use it. For example, D. Michael Quinn uses it as evidence, and cites the Jessee transcript of the letter (cited above):
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| − | ==Conclusion==
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | #{{note|roberts.92}} {{Dialogue1|author=Allen D. Roberts|article='The Truth is the Most Important Thing': The New Mormon History According to Mark Hofmann|vol=20|num=4|date=Winter 1987|start=92}}
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| − | ==Further reading==
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| − | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| − | {{JosephSmithWiki}}
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| − | ===FAIR web site===
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| − | *{{tg|url=http://www.fairlds.org/apol/ai241.html|topic=Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith}}
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| − | {{JosephSmithFAIR}}
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| − | ===External links===
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| − | {{JosephSmithLinks}}
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| − | ===Printed material===
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| − | *{{CarthageConspiracy1|start=1}}{{NB}}
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| − | {{JosephSmithPrint}}
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