It was very soon after this affair that the much talked of phenomenon of the meteoric shower (on the night of November 12th) occurred. This extraordinary visitation did not fail to produce its effects upon the superstitious minds of a few ignorant people, who began to wonder whether, after all, the Mormons might not be in the right; and whether this was not a sign sent from heaven as a remonstrance for the injustice they had been guilty of towards that chosen sect.


Commerce of the Prairies (1831–1839), Chapter 16 - Incidents of a Return Trip from Santa Fé — The Mormons


It was very soon after this affair that the much talked of phenomenon of the meteoric shower (on the night of November 12th) occurred. This...

It was very soon after this affair that the much talked of phenomenon of the meteoric shower (on the night of November 12th) occurred. This...

It was very soon after this affair that the much talked of phenomenon of the meteoric shower (on the night of November 12th) occurred. This...

It was very soon after this affair that the much talked of phenomenon of the meteoric shower (on the night of November 12th) occurred. This...