0:00- About Miles Harvey and the focus of his latest book, James Strang
10:52- Strang is baptized by Hyrum and claims to be the new prophet
24:18- Moving to Beaver Island and starting a kingdom
29:53- Elected to Michigan state legislature; Polygamy
36:41- Assassination plots and pirating
39:28- Angelic visits, plates, and the various endeavors of James Strang
46:28- Assassination and the aftermath; remnants of Strang’s kingdom today
55:43- Ending Questions
Miles Harvey is the author of the national and international bestseller The Island of Lost Maps and the recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. His book Painter in a Savage Land was named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Booklist Editors’ Choice. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books.
See the “Letter of Appointment” from Joseph Smith to James Strang.
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