Item Detail
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18799
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English
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And the War Came : James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 2008
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76
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no.1
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22-37
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William P. Mackinnon writes that although the Church had poor relations with the U.S. Government from the founding of the Church in 1830 to the migration of the Church to the Utah Territory, the real cause of the Utah War was private letters and other inflammatory information from three people: William W. Drummond, W.M.F. Magraw, and Thomas S. Twiss. This information alarmed cabinet members in Washington, who decided on both political and military intervention in the Utah Territory. MacKinnon also points out that none of the officials on either side of the war--Brigham Young, President Buchanan, General Scott, Thomas L. Kane, John B. Floyd, William S. Harney--were in good health at the time, and were not functioning at peak effectiveness, which contributed to poor decision-making.
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Brigham and the Brigadier : General Patrick Connor and His California Volunteers in Utah and Along the Overland Trail
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Epilogue to the Utah War : Impact and Legacy
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
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"Lonely Bones" : Leadership and Utah War Violence
Loose in the Stacks : A Half-Century with the Utah War and Its Legacy
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The Buchanan Spoils System and the Utah Expedition : Careers of W. M. F. Magraw and John M. Hockaday
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The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
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