Download or read book From Nauvoo to Carthage written by J. Marc. Merrill and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic, tension-filled last days of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, who risked all by agreeing to the demand by Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois, that he come to Carthage, the Hancock County seat—an 18-mile journey from the Prophet’s home in Nauvoo—to answer charges pertaining to the destruction of the Expositor press in June of 1844. The journey would prove to be a one-way trip.