---
title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I
description: Published in 1905, covers 1838 to 1839, including the Missouri conflict of 1838, the expulsion of the Mormons from the state and an appendix of affidavits sworn at Nauvoo in 1843.
authors:
  - Roberts, B. H.
author_role: editor
about:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - history
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - history
  - autobiography
  - joseph-smith
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
volume: 3
published: "1905"
publisher: Deseret News
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
edition: First edition, 6 volumes (Salt Lake City, 1902 to 1912)
language: en
type: book
reference: '"Title page," in *History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I*, ed. B. H. Roberts, vol. 3 (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1905).'
source:
  url: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47707
  identifier: gutenberg-47707
  transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #47707 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1905 edition). The Gutenberg header, license and transcriber notes are not included."
curator_note: A Mormon source published by the church and edited by B. H. Roberts; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. The first-person narrative was largely compiled by clerks and historians after the events it describes; Roberts's introductions, marginal notes and footnotes are his editorial additions.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1905 US publication (Salt Lake City, Deseret News; introduction and notes by B. H. Roberts); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47707
  publication_year: 1905
  note: Period I only (volumes 1 to 6). Period II (volume 7, 1932, and later volumes) is not public domain and is not included.
---

# Title page

HISTORY

OF THE

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

OF

LATTER-DAY SAINTS

PERIOD I.

History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet.

By Himself.

Volume III.

An Introduction and Notes

By

B. H. Roberts.

Published by the Church.

Deseret News.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

1905.