Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)

He not only joined, I mean, I'm not saying he was duped by Joseph Smith.

I'm saying he later joined another group of people called the Strangites.

James Strang followed this guy on this island called Beaver Island who declared that Joseph Smith gave him the right to be the next prophet.

And he said that there was like this thing buried underneath the tree and it miraculously appeared.

There's the Cutlerites that went down into Texas.

There's the Strangites that went up into Michigan.

That's just five that I can think of right off the bat.

However, it is fair to say that the two dominant sects, Nowadays are the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which then re-split into the Community of Christ and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that is the Brighamite sect.

blows my mind is because I've been doing this for a while.

I wrote about a historic site in 1992 and it was because I was in Burlington, Wisconsin and which was where the Strangites settled in the 1840s.

And the Brighamites came to Burlington, Wisconsin, and erected a monument about how they misappropriated the Strangite history and said, and made a monument to themselves saying, look, here's where the Mormons built their first cabin in Burlington.

And they made it like the Brighamites had a presence in Wisconsin since the 1830s and 1840s.

They badly, badly missed this for decades.

Mormon historical markers everywhere, even on Strangite sites.

The Strangites marked all their stuff, too, already in the 1960s and 1970s.

We marked the Hill Cumorah in 1935 or so.

We're gonna cover that next episode in part five of the Brigham Young series.

Today's episode, the succession crisis and the Strangites and the Rigdonites, evil is sufficient of the day thereof.

How's that for the intro, John Turner?

Oof.

So it really, it comes down to Rigdon versus the 12, and in the end, it's a, it's really a rout.

Um, you know, Brigham and the 12 have much more popular support among Nauvoo church members than, than Rigdon does.

And, and we'll get into more detail, because i- it may, it may be a rout, but Rig- the Rigdonites caused Jose- caused Brigham a lot of stress for a year or two, and the Strangites did, too.

So we'll, I wanna get into that, but before we do, what ...

period.Exactly.

But then you have the darker corners of the splintering, the Bickertonites, the Strangites, and the various fundamentalist traditions that still exist in the American West today.

The fundamentalist branches are where we observe the most intense, unvarnished concentration of the STS-like distortions we identified in Nauvoo.

They preserved the DNA of the secretive, patriarchal, authoritarian Joseph.