<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-05-08T07:42:13+00:00</updated><id>/feed.xml</id><title type="html">MormonImages.com</title><subtitle>Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Brigham Young Shows a Young Mark Twain His Valley Tan Whisky Distillery</title><link href="/media/brigham-young-word-of-wisdom-valley-tan-whisky-mark-twain/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Brigham Young Shows a Young Mark Twain His Valley Tan Whisky Distillery" /><published>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/brigham-young-word-of-wisdom-valley-tan-whisky-mark-twain</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/brigham-young-word-of-wisdom-valley-tan-whisky-mark-twain/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Brigham Young" /><category term="Word of Wisdom" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Utah" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Brigham Young shows Mark Twain the church-affiliated Valley Tan whisky distillery in 1861 Salt Lake City — three decades after the Word of Wisdom counseled Mormons prohibited strong drink.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">An Angel with a Drawn Sword Threatens Joseph Smith into Practicing Polygamy</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-angel-drawn-sword/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="An Angel with a Drawn Sword Threatens Joseph Smith into Practicing Polygamy" /><published>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-angel-drawn-sword</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-angel-drawn-sword/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Polygamy" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The "angel with a drawn sword" Joseph Smith invoked to compel his inner circle to accept polygamy — reframed here with a demonic shadow looming on the wall behind the angel.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Drinks a Mug of Beer at Moeser’s Tavern in 1844 Nauvoo</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-word-of-wisdom-nauvoo-beer-moesers-tavern/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Drinks a Mug of Beer at Moeser’s Tavern in 1844 Nauvoo" /><published>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-07T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-word-of-wisdom-nauvoo-beer-moesers-tavern</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-word-of-wisdom-nauvoo-beer-moesers-tavern/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Word of Wisdom" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joseph Smith drinks a mug of beer at a Nauvoo tavern — an episode of the kind preserved in contemporary diaries and omitted from today's strict-prohibition Word of Wisdom narrative.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Gives 19 Year-Old Nancy Rigdon the ‘Happiness Letter’ After Her Polygamy Rejection</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-happiness-letter-nancy-rigdon/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Gives 19 Year-Old Nancy Rigdon the ‘Happiness Letter’ After Her Polygamy Rejection" /><published>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-happiness-letter-nancy-rigdon</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-happiness-letter-nancy-rigdon/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Polygamy" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joseph Smith confronts 19 year-old Nancy Rigdon with his 'Happiness Letter' after she refuses his plural marriage proposal — the 1842 Nauvoo scandal that enraged Sidney Rigdon.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Celebrates Polygamy, Power, and Excess as His Mob Destroys the Nauvoo Expositor Press</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-nauvoo-expositor/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Celebrates Polygamy, Power, and Excess as His Mob Destroys the Nauvoo Expositor Press" /><published>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-nauvoo-expositor</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-nauvoo-expositor/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Polygamy" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><category term="Corruption" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[June 10, 1844: Joseph Smith orders the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press for exposing his secret polygamy — the act that led to his arrest and death Carthage Jail.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Young Joseph Smith Uses His Seer Stone in a Hat to Dig for Treasure on Josiah Stowell’s Farm</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-seer-stone-treasure-digging/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Young Joseph Smith Uses His Seer Stone in a Hat to Dig for Treasure on Josiah Stowell’s Farm" /><published>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-seer-stone-treasure-digging</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-seer-stone-treasure-digging/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Seer Stone" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Palmyra" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joseph Smith kneels with his seer stone in a hat to direct a treasure-digging crew — the well-documented 1822–1827 practice that led to his 1826 'disorderly person' conviction.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Dictates the Book of Mormon Using His Seer Stone in a Hat</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-dictating-the-book-of-mormon/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Dictates the Book of Mormon Using His Seer Stone in a Hat" /><published>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-dictating-the-book-of-mormon</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-dictating-the-book-of-mormon/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Book of Mormon" /><category term="Translation" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Seer Stone" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joseph Smith dictating the Book of Mormon to scribe Oliver Cowdery using a seer stone placed inside a hat — the translation method confirmed by eyewitness accounts.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Drinks Wine and Shoots Back at the Mob in Carthage Jail Prior to His Death</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-martyrdom-carthage-jail-wine-pistol/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Drinks Wine and Shoots Back at the Mob in Carthage Jail Prior to His Death" /><published>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-martyrdom-carthage-jail-wine-pistol</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-martyrdom-carthage-jail-wine-pistol/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Word of Wisdom" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Joseph Smith fires a smuggled pepperbox pistol at the Carthage Jail mob on June 27, 1844 while clutching a wine bottle — details the correlated 'lamb to the slaughter' narrative omits.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Emma Discovers Joseph Smith’s Secret Relationship With 16 Year-Old Fanny Alger</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-fanny-alger/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Emma Discovers Joseph Smith’s Secret Relationship With 16 Year-Old Fanny Alger" /><published>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-fanny-alger</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-fanny-alger/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Polygamy" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Kirtland" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Emma Smith discovers her husband Joseph with 16-year-old Fanny Alger — historians' candidate for his first plural wife and Oliver Cowdery's 'filthy affair.']]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Joseph Smith Takes 14 Year-Old Helen Mar Kimball as One of His Many Plural Wives</title><link href="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-helen-mar-kimball/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Joseph Smith Takes 14 Year-Old Helen Mar Kimball as One of His Many Plural Wives" /><published>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-helen-mar-kimball</id><content type="html" xml:base="/media/joseph-smith-polygamy-plural-marriage-helen-mar-kimball/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name></name></author><category term="Joseph Smith" /><category term="Polygamy" /><category term="Church History" /><category term="Nauvoo" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball beside 37-year-old Joseph Smith around their May 1843 sealing in Nauvoo — one of Smith's youngest plural wives.]]></summary></entry></feed>