Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869"Unlike previous writers, for whom early Utah was an enlightened, genteel New England society displaced by religious persecution, Eugene Campbell describes a rugged people at the frontier of the 19th century American West. Like other immigrants, Mormon pioneers fought Indians- sometimes taking scalps- battled mountain men, and supported vigilante justice."-from inside jacket. |
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Colonizing the Base | 1 |
The Lure of California Gold | 41 |
The Inner Colonies | 57 |
Copyright | |
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