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Health & Wealth Report
2:09 pm
Tue January 31, 2012

Mormons returning to northwest Missouri, 174 years after 'extermination order'

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"We believe that this is the birthplace of the human race," said Barry Bartlett, who moved to Missouri 16 years ago. His great, great, great, great grandfather wielded a mean oak stick back in the Gallatin election day battle of 1838.
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Bryan Youd is the bishop in charge of the local church here in Gallatin. He's standing in the chapel of the new building.
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Just off Highway 13, past the Gallatin Quarry.
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The overlook at Adam-Ondi-Ahman. In the summer, the corn is tall and the tour busses thick.
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The church was built in 2005, but members quickly outgrew the new space, and added on in 2008.
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Downtown Gallatin. The Mormon community here now numbers around 400, a sizable group in a town of less than 2000.
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"All of this is this noxious blend of religious bigotry, land hunger, and this cultural difference," said Tom Spencer, historian at Northwest Missouri State.
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John Dougan, the Missouri state archivist. The original "Mormon extermination order" of 1838 is housed at the archives, as is Governor Kit Bonds' rescission order of 1976.
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Ever since Mormon prophet and founder Joseph Smith revealed the Book of Mormon in 1830, his followers have struggled for acceptance. If you want to understand the "why" behind this rocky relationship, the rolling farmland of northwest Missouri might be the best place to start -- the birthplace of the human race, according to Joseph Smith, and the place where Christ will first step down in the second coming. 

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