- Date
- 1920
- Eras
- Modern eraStrang era
- Concepts
- mormonismhistoriographygovernance
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
A Few Historical Facts Concerning the Murderous Assault at Pine River is a 1920 Strangite pamphlet that republishes two earlier newspaper narratives: a July 1853 Northern Islander Extra account of the Pine River assault and a June 1856 Daily Northern Islander report on the shooting of James J. Strang.
It also frames both episodes as persecution of Strang and his church. That editorial frame is evidence of later Strangite remembrance and transmission, not neutral confirmation of the reprinted accounts or their religious claims.
Evidence limits
The project holds this 1920 pamphlet, not the original 1853 Extra as a separate physical issue. It may preserve the earlier text, but does not independently establish the underlying events, authorship of every original newspaper passage, the alleged perpetrators’ legal histories, or the pamphlet’s devotional claims.
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12 pages, rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Held full pamphlet opens with a July 14, 1853 Northern Islander Extra account of the Pine River assault and later reprints the June 20, 1856 Daily Northern Islander report on Strang’s shooting. Its editorial notes characterize the accounts as proof of persecution and call Strang a prophet; it is therefore a 1920 Strangite retrospective/reprint source, not independent confirmation of the events or its editorial conclusions. The article cites this item's OCR text; the archive also holds the scan, rendered page by page 2026-08-08 and named in `pdf_page_source`. 12 pages. The item is this pamphlet itself.
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Beaver Island Archive, “A Few Historical Facts Concerning the Murderous Assault at Pine River, 1920”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/few-historical-facts-pine-river-1920/, accessed [date], citing A Few Historical Facts Concerning the Murderous Assault at Pine River; Also the Life, Ministry, Ancestry and Childhood of James J. Strang, Northern Islander Extra (1920)..
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