Mormons are the original preppers, are they not?
Yeah, they had to be! Just look @ how fast Joseph Smith & his followers had to leave Kirtland, Ohio in the 1830s after Smith's bank failure & need to avoid arrest there for his fraud & other shenanigans!
* History.com: 1838: Joseph Smith abandons Ohio: 'After his Mormon bank fails in the Panic of 1837, Joseph Smith flees Kirtland, Ohio, to avoid arrest and heads for Missouri to rebuild his religious community.'
* Pictures Of Bills From The Failed Kirtland Anti-Banking Society + Joseph Smith's Kirtland Bank Failure + Joseph's Vain Ambitions - The Failed Kirtland Bank + It's Not Just What Ol' Joe Was Convicted For - What Else Was He Never Convicted For?
* Joseph Smith's Kirtland Bank Failure
* Per BYU: From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies: 'This hurried departure necessitated leaving the mummies and papyri secretly hidden at William Huntington’s home in New Portage, Ohio, which was about twenty miles south of Kirkland.'