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Product Description: The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. Europeans and Americans over time have mostly avoided, disdained, or ignored it. Wrecks of Human Ambition illustrates how this landscape undercut notions and expectations of good, productive land held by the first explorers, settlers, and travelers who visited it...read more

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9781607813330 | Univ of Utah Pr, March 14, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America.

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Product Description: The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P...read more

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9780870623868 | Arthur H Clark, October 1, 2016, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780806141350 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: America s first civil war played out in the Far West In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.

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9780806143156 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.

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Product Description: The British explorer Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) was a colourful and often controversial character. A talented linguist and keen ethnologist, he first gained celebrity for his adventurous 1853 trip to Mecca, conducted under the disguise of a pilgrim...read more

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9780404084332, titled "The City of the Saints; And, Across the Rocky Mountains to California" | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1975, cover price $90.95

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9781108033169, titled "The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California" | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 22, 2011), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: The British explorer Sir Richard F.
9780870811913 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Colorado, June 1, 1990), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George R. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and charged—first as Register of Land, then as U.S. marshal—with bringing the Mormons into compliance with federal law...read more

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9780870623882 | Arthur H Clark, April 1, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George R.

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Product Description: The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history of that extraordinary conflict...read more

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9780870623547 | Arthur H Clark, April 30, 2008, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.
9780870623530 | Arthur H Clark, March 15, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.

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Product Description: During the Autumn of 1857, in a remote region of what is now Southern Utah, acts of great treachery were committed against innocent people. The loss of life was staggering and unprecedented in American history. Evidence shows the responsible parties to be from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, including the Prophet Brigham Young...read more

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9781425995652 | Authorhouse, March 31, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: During the Autumn of 1857, in a remote region of what is now Southern Utah, acts of great treachery were committed against innocent people.

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9781425995645 | Authorhouse, March 31, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: During the Autumn of 1857, in a remote region of what is now Southern Utah, acts of great treachery were committed against innocent people.

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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, describing the relationship between the invading army and local Mormons, Indians, and federal officials. Original.

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9780874803945 | Univ of Utah Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780874808452 | Univ of Utah Pr, August 15, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: 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, describing the relationship between the invading army and local Mormons, Indians, and federal officials.

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Describes the massacre of a wagon train by Mormon militiamen and their Native American allies at a lowland creek called Mountain Meadows.

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9780806134260 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The author peels back the lid on one of the worst secrets of the Mormon settlement of Utah--the massacre of a wagon train by Mormon militiamen and their Native American allies at lowland creek called Mountain Meadows.

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9780806136394 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Describes the massacre of a wagon train by Mormon militiamen and their Native American allies at a lowland creek called Mountain Meadows.

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Product Description: Captain Ginn's manuscript is, without a doubt an unusual collection of events that occurred on the Western Frontier, in the volatile years of 1857 and 1858. There are uniquely interesting and highly detailed accounts of a most pertinent and intimate nature regarding the condition in Utah and the West in 1857-58, that up to this time, has never, to the best of my knowledge, been seen by the general public...read more

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9781410743633 | Authorhouse, May 1, 2003, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Captain Ginn's manuscript is, without a doubt an unusual collection of events that occurred on the Western Frontier, in the volatile years of 1857 and 1858.

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9781410743640 | Authorhouse, May 1, 2003, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Captain Ginn's manuscript is, without a doubt an unusual collection of events that occurred on the Western Frontier, in the volatile years of 1857 and 1858.

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Product Description: In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand Mormons from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands. As their countrymen were farming rich fields in other parts of the United States, Scandinavian Mormons were making their way to Salt Lake City...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780816636747 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand Mormons from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands.

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Product Description: "The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake Valley, Bear River, Cache Valley, and Bear Lake - northern Utah. Sagwitch was born in this core fur trapping region at a time when his people had close associations with the mountain men...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780874212716 | Utah State Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "The Northwestern Shoshone knew as home the northern Great Salt Lake Valley, Bear River, Cache Valley, and Bear Lake - northern Utah.

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9780874212709 | Utah State Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $23.95

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Product Description: This is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party travelled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Donna Toland Smart (editor) and William B. Smart (editor)

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9780874212815 | Utah State Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah.

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Product Description: Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1984. 1st Edition, Hardbound, 8vo (9.5 inches tall), 297 pages. Index, bibliography, notes, appendices.

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9780874802375 | Univ of Utah Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1984.

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