---
title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I
description: Published in 1912, covers August 1843 to June 1844, including Smith's candidacy for president of the United States, the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor and his death at Carthage jail.
authors:
  - Roberts, B. H.
author_role: editor
about:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - history
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - history
  - autobiography
  - joseph-smith
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
volume: 6
published: "1912"
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. 6 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1912).'
source:
  url: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60758
  identifier: gutenberg-60758
  transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #60758 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1912 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: 1912 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/60758
  publication_year: 1912
  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 VI.

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY B. H. ROBERTS

PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

1912.