Photo: From the diary of James Strang (see attached PDF). Via Archive.org. Publisher: Michigan State University Press. Copyright review: Public domain according to HathiTrust rights database. From Atheist to Angel Whisperer and His Island Empire of Fraud. The Blood of a Prophet and the Ambitions of a Pretender In the spring of 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois, … Continue reading James Strang: Fake Mormon Prophet, Self-Crowned King, and Master of the Ultimate Confidence Game