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God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land : Faith and Conflict in the American West
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Urbana and Chicago
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University of Illinois Press
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"God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land examines how and why three new religious groups failed to find a peaceful home in this purportedly tolerant region. It analyzes Mormon history from the Utah Expedition and Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 through subsequent decades of federal legislative and judicial actions aimed at ending polygamy and limiting church power. It also focuses on the Lakota Ghost Dancers and the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota (1890), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas (1993). In sharp contrast to the mythic image of the West as the "Land of the Free." these three tragic episodes reveal the West as a cultural battleground--in the words of one reporter, "a collision of guns, God, and government." Kerstetter asks important questions about what happens when groups with a deep trust in their differing inner truths meet, and he exposes the religious motivations behind government policies that worked to alter Mormonism and extinguish Native American beliefs." [abstract from book cover]
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Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Post New Mormon History : A Manifesto
Reconstruction, Religion, and the West: The Great Impeacher Meets the Mormons
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
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'Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen' : The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838-39
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American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
Anti-Mormonism in Illinois : Thomas C. Sharp's Unfinished History of the Mormon War, 1845
A Political Interpretation of Mormon History
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
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Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Diary of Brigham Young, 1857
Ecclesiastical Influence on Local Government in the Territory of Utah
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The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
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The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
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The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
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The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
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