---
title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I
description: Published in 1909, covers May 1842 to August 1843, including the break with John C. Bennett, Missouri's attempts to extradite Smith and the introduction of the endowment ceremonies.
authors:
  - Roberts, B. H.
author_role: editor
about:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - history
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - history
  - autobiography
  - joseph-smith
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
volume: 5
published: "1909"
publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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. 5 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1909).'
source:
  url: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60736
  identifier: gutenberg-60736
  transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #60736 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1909 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: 1909 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; introduction and notes by B. H. Roberts); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60736
  publication_year: 1909
  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 V.

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY B. H. ROBERTS.

PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH,

1909.