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When the U.S. Army “Invaded” Utah
I have long been interested in the so-called “Mormon War” of 1857-1858 that took place in the inter-mountain West. It was about so many things and may be interpreted in so many different ways. It could be seen as persecution … Continue reading
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Tagged 1857–1858: A Documentary Account of the United States Military Movement under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Alfred Cumming, and the Resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Arthur H. Clarke Co., Brigham Young, Camp Floyd, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fort Bridger, Green River, James Buchanan, Le Roy Reuben Hafen, Lot Smith, Nauvoo Legion, politics, polygamy, presidential power, Salt Lake City, The Utah Expedition, theocracy, Thomas L. Kane, Utah War, William S. Harney
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