This is a re-composed replica of the newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois, which can be said led to Joseph Smith’s death in that he demanded the printing press and newspaper office be destroyed after the paper’s inaugural issue, upon which Smith was arrested and subsequently assassinated in nearby Carthage Jail. In this reconstruction, care has been taken to duplicate the design and retain all of the original typographical idiosyncracies. Transcription by H. Michael Marquardt, composition by Connie Disney, with help from five Signature Books proof readers. Only a handful of copies of the original are known to exist.