No Toil Nor Labor Fear: The Story of William Clayton

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface

Introduction “I Feel I Am Not My Own”: A Preview of One Man’s Discipleship

1 Disciple from Penwortham

2 Emigration Homeward

3 “Once More at Home”

4 William Clayton’s Secular Nauvoo

5 The Sacred, the Secret, and the Solemn

6 Tragedy’s Aftermath

7 One Man’s Families

8 The Great Move West, 1846–47

9 Remembering Joseph but Following Brigham: An Overview of the Utah Years

10 Happy Days and Lonely Hours: Clayton's Mission to England

11 Apocalyptic Discipleship: William Clayton and Mormon Millennial Expectations of the 1860s

12 The Esoteric Tendency

13 How Not to Get Rich in Pioneer Utah: The Economic Life of a Disciple

Epilogue “The Shaking between the Field and the Barn”: The Clayton Allegory

Appendix 1 Comparison of William Clayton’s Diary and History of the Church (December 1842–June 1844)

Appendix 2 William Clayton’s “History of the Nauvoo Temple,” circa 1845

About the Author