Week 2: The Scramble

What each claimant to Smith's authority argued, in the six weeks between Carthage and the August conference

1 March 2027

Outline#

• the timeline: June 27 to August 8, 1844
• Rigdon’s claim: sole surviving counselor, acting as “guardian”
• the Twelve’s return, and why an apostolic quorum was the era’s least tested succession theory
• what counts as a usable primary source for events this contested, and how to read one skeptically