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Camp Floyd and the Mormons

Author : Donald R. Moorman
Publisher : Utah Centennial Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camp Floyd and the Mormons written by Donald R. Moorman and published by Utah Centennial Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake at the outbreak of the Civil War. The book describes the relationship between the invading army and the local Mormon population, gives an account of Indian affairs in Utah, and describes the activities of federal officials in Utah during that volatile period. Completed posthumously by Gene Sessions, Moorman's colleague at Weber State University, Camp Floyd and the Mormons is a comprehensive analysis of the history of frontier Utah as a decade of isolation ended and confrontations with the United States government began. Moorman had unprecedented access to materials in the LDS Church Archives on subjects ranging from the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the Mormon responses to the presence of the army in Utah from 1858 through 1861. First published by the University of Utah Press in 1992, this reprint edition includes a new introduction by Gene Sessions in which he recounts Moorman's research adventures during the 1960s "in the bowels of the old Church Administration Building, where Joseph Fielding Smith and A. Will Lund watched over the contents of the archives like wide-eyed mother hens."

The Mormon Rebellion

Author : David L. Bigler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806183985
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Mormon Rebellion written by David L. Bigler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to show that—contrary to common perception—the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan's "blunder," nor was it a David-and-Goliath tale in which an abused religious minority heroically defied the imperial ambitions of an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue that Mormon leaders had their own far-reaching ambitions and fully intended to establish an independent nation—the Kingdom of God—in the West. Long overshadowed by the Civil War, the tragic story of this conflict involved a tense and protracted clash pitting Brigham Young's Nauvoo Legion against Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and the U.S. Army's Utah Expedition. In the end, the conflict between the two armies saw no pitched battles, but in the authors' view, Buchanan's decision to order troops to Utah, his so-called blunder, eventually proved decisive and beneficial for both Mormons and the American republic. A rich exploration of events and forces that presaged the Civil War, The Mormon Rebellion broadens our understanding of both antebellum America and Utah's frontier theocracy and offers a challenging reinterpretation of a controversial chapter in Mormon annals.

U.S. Army Letters, 1858-59

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Army Letters, 1858-59 written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Camp Floyd

Author : John Gibbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Camp Floyd written by John Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sheets from Gibbon's article in American Catholic Quarterly Review for October 1879, 20 pp., originally titled 'The Mormons' and changed in ink by Gibbon to the above title." The item has changes and handwritten pages with it.

Mormon Thunder

Author : Gene A. Sessions
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mormon Thunder written by Gene A. Sessions and published by Greg Kofford Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jedediah Morgan Grant was a man who knew no compromise when it came to principles—and his principles were clearly representative, argues Gene A. Sessions, of Mormonism’s first generation. His life is a glimpse of a Mormon world whose disappearance coincided with the death of this “pious yet rambunctiously radical preacher, flogging away at his people, demanding otherworldliness and constant sacrifice.” It was “an eschatological, pre-millennial world in which every individual teetered between salvation and damnation and in which unsanitary privies and appropriating a stray cow held the same potential for eternal doom as blasphemy and adultery.” Updated and newly illustrated with more photographs, this second edition of the award-winning documentary history (first published in 1982) chronicles Grant’s ubiquitous role in the Mormon history of the 1840s and ’50s. In addition to serving as counselor to Brigham Young during two tumultuous and influential years at the end of his life, he also portentously befriended Thomas L. Kane, worked to temper his unruly brother-in-law William Smith, captained a company of emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and journeyed to the East on several missions to bolster the position of the Mormons during the crises surrounding the runaway judges affair and the public revelation of polygamy. Jedediah Morgan Grant’s voice rises powerfully in these pages, startling in its urgency in summoning his people to sacrifice and moving in its tenderness as he communicated to his family. From hastily scribbled letters to extemporaneous sermons exhorting obedience, and the notations of still stunned listeners, the sound of “Mormon Thunder” rolls again in “a boisterous amplification of what Mormonism really was, and would never be again.”

In Search of Johnston's Army

Author : Duane A. Bylund
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595532306
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Johnston's Army written by Duane A. Bylund and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the many artifacts found at the sites of Camp Floyd (Fort Crittenden) and West Creek.

Recollections of Past Days

Author : Sandra Ailey Petree
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874215315
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Past Days written by Sandra Ailey Petree and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life. The daughter of an English gardener, Patience Loader became a boarding house servant, domestic maid, and seamstress. Converted to Mormonism, she shipped with her parents to America. They joined the ill-fated Martin company, which because of poor planning and a late start west, was caught poorly prepared by severe high plains snowstorms in October and November 1856. The combined fatalities of the Martin and Willie companies made this the worst disaster in the history of overland travel. Patience = s father was one of those who died. After reaching Utah, Patience took the unusual step for a Mormon of marrying a soldier, John Rozsa, stationed at Camp Floyd. The troops there had made up the Utah Expedition, sent to ensure federal authority over the Mormons. Rozsa was a Hungarian immigrant and Mormon convert. When the Utah troops were recalled for the Civil War, Patience accompanied her husband, as an army laundress, to Washington, D.C., running a boarding house while Rozsa fought. After the war, he died at Fort Leavenworth of consumption, and Patience returned alone to Utah, where she became a cook at a mining camp in American Fork Canyon. Her autobiography ends there in 1872, though she lived till 1922.

Six Letters to W.A. Gordon

Author : George Hampton Crosman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Six Letters to W.A. Gordon written by George Hampton Crosman and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written while a member of the U.S. military expedition into Utah Territory. Two letters, from John H. Dickinson and Carlos A. Waite, stationed at Camp Scott and Camp Floyd respectively, also addressed to Gordon, included. Comment on reaction of the Mormons to the troops, U.S. policy toward the Mormons, trial of participants in the Mountain Meadows massacre, etc. With these: printed proclamation by Alfred Cumming, governor, Utah Territory, Mar. 27, 1859, protesting against presence of troops around Provo; and copy of remarks delivered by Judge John Cradlebaugh, Mar. 30, 1859, in reply to the proclamation.

Camp Floyd at Fairfield, Utah

Author : Harold P. Fabian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Camp Floyd at Fairfield, Utah written by Harold P. Fabian and published by . This book was released on 1959* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood of the Prophets

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806186844
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Blood of the Prophets written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.

George Hampton Crosman Letters to W.A. Gordon

Author : George Hampton Crosman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book George Hampton Crosman Letters to W.A. Gordon written by George Hampton Crosman and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written while a member of the U.S. military expedition into Utah Territory. Two letters, from John H. Dickinson and Carlos A. Waite, stationed at Camp Scott and Camp Floyd respectively, also addressed to Gordon, included. Comment on reaction of the Mormons to the troops, U.S. policy toward the Mormons, trial of participants in the Mountain Meadows massacre, etc. With these: printed proclamation by Alfred Cumming, governor, Utah Territory, Mar. 27, 1859, protesting against presence of troops around Provo; and copy of remarks delivered by Judge John Cradlebaugh, Mar. 30, 1859, in reply to the proclamation.

Holy Murder

Author : Charles Kelly
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839740434
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Holy Murder written by Charles Kelly and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy Murder, first published in 1934, is a fascinating, controversial look at the “Avenging Angel” of the Mormon Church, Porter Rockwell. The authors trace the violent history of the Mormon Church beginning with its origins in New York and Illinois, to the flight of its members and their settlement near the Great Salt Lake. Citing numerous sources and interviewing witnesses and descendants, the exploits of Rockwell are detailed to form a picture of a man on the one hand kind to children and his friends, while on the other capable of the most grisly murders of perceived enemies of the church. Although open to criticism for its anti-Mormon bias, attempting to accurately portray Rockwell is difficult as he did not keep a personal diary and many of his activities were shrouded in secrecy. Included are 12 pages of illustrations.

Camp Floyd at Fairfield, Utah

Author : Utah. Park and Recreation Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Camp Floyd at Fairfield, Utah written by Utah. Park and Recreation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City of the Saints

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The City of the Saints written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unpopular Sovereignty

Author : Brent M. Rogers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803296444
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Unpopular Sovereignty written by Brent M. Rogers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group the Mormons sought to establish their own popular sovereignty, raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory. In "Unpopular Sovereignty," Brent M. Rogers invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementation of a republican form of government, the administration of Indian policy and Native American affairs, and gender and familial relations all of which played an important role in the national perception of the Mormons ability to self-govern. Utah s status as a federal territory drew it into larger conversations about popular sovereignty and the expansion of federal power in the West. Ultimately, Rogers argues, managing sovereignty in Utah proved to have explosive and far-reaching consequences for the nation as a whole as it teetered on the brink of disunion and civil war. "

Unpopular Sovereignty

Author : Brent M. Rogers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080327677X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Unpopular Sovereignty written by Brent M. Rogers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6. The U.S. Army and the Symbolic Conquering of Mormon Sovereignty -- 7. To 1862: The Codification of Federal Authority and the End of Popular Sovereignty in the Western Territories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The Civil War Years in Utah

Author : John Gary Maxwell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155280
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Years in Utah written by John Gary Maxwell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the earth. Three decades later, when Smith’s prophecy failed with the end of the American Civil War, the United States left torn but intact, the Mormons’ perspective on the conflict—and their inactivity in it—required palliative revision. In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during the Civil War, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders’ version of this dark chapter in Utah history. While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers. Active for a mere ninety days, they patrolled overland trails and telegraph lines. Furthermore, Maxwell finds indisputable evidence of Southern allegiance among Mormon leaders, despite their claim of staunch, long-standing loyalty to the Union. Men at the highest levels of Mormon hierarchy were in close personal contact with Confederate operatives. In seeking sovereignty, Maxwell contends, the Saints engaged in blatant and treasonous conflict with Union authorities, the California and Nevada Volunteers, and federal policies, repeatedly skirting open warfare with the U.S. government. Collective memory of this consequential period in American history, Maxwell argues, has been ill-served by a one-sided perspective. This engaging and long-overdue reappraisal finally fills in the gaps, telling the full story of the Civil War years in Utah Territory.