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Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as

Spiritualists --- Ex-church members --- Mormon converts --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Watt, G. D. --- Apostates --- Church dropouts --- Church members, Fallen-away --- Church members, Lapsed --- Fallen-away church members --- Inactive church members --- Lapsed church members --- Non-church-affiliated people --- Converts, Mormon --- Christian converts --- Mormons --- Latter Day Saint converts --- Latter Day Saints