By Thomas M. Spencer
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10 I would assert that the effect of the Mormon War cut two ways. Most historians of Missouri have treated the Mormon period in the state’s history as a brief, if queer interlude, in which some peculiar-thinking northeasterners got chased out of the region. Then traditional patterns resumed and the Mormons left scarcely a ripple upon the pond of the state’s history. I do not believe this is true. Western Missouri was largely populated by young men in the 1830s. Governor Boggs was the old man of the group at forty-one when he first encountered the church as a merchant in Independence.
Cotton growing, for example, was a notable failure, while tobacco and hemp growing proved successful. During the early years of settlement, the region’s farmers shipped their produce to New Orleans for national and international distribution. As time passed, however, St. Louis became their end destination and the region’s economic future in the years before the Civil War became firmly linked to that economically booming city. Emulating the agriculture of the Upper South brought other consequences.
On the night of June 28, 1836, “several outrages” were committed upon some of the Saints living in a settlement near Fishing River in eastern Clay County. ”45 Clay County citizens began a vigilant campaign of surveillance over the county roads, attempting to keep immigration of Saints into the county in check. When a non-Mormon named Jesse Clark and his cohorts turned away large groups of LDS members arriving from the east, militant Mormon leader Lyman Wight went on the offensive. Wight gathered a force of 250 to defend his brethren in the eastern part of the county and those still migrating to the area.