This is the fifth volume of an epic series, The Quest for the New Jerusalem: A Mormon Generational Saga, combining ancestral, Mormon, and American history. It focuses upon events from the fall of 1835 to January 1838, when the "Kirtland period" of Mormon history ends. Describing the activities of the author's Carter ancestors, it looks at authoritarianism in the Church, the dedication of the Kirtland Temple, the Church's April 1836 anti-abolitionist...