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The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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545
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Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation. Young first met Thomas L. Kane on the plains of western Iowa in 1846. Young came to rely on Kane, 21 years his junior, as his most trusted outside adviser, making Kane the most important non-Mormon in the history of the Church. In return, no one influenced the direction of Kane's life more than Young. The letters exchanged by the two offer crucial insights into Young's personal life and views as well as his actions as a political and religious leader. The Prophet and the Reformer offers a complete reproduction of the surviving letters between the Mormon prophet and the Philadelphia reformer. The correspondence reveals the strategies of the Latter-day Saints in relating to American culture and government during these crucial years when the "Mormon Question" was a major political, cultural, and legal issue. The letters also shed important light on the largely forgotten "Utah War" of 1857-58, triggered when President James Buchanan dispatched a military expedition to ensure federal supremacy in Utah and replace Young with a non-Mormon governor.
This annotated collection of their correspondence reveals a great deal about these two remarkable men, while also providing crucial insight into nineteenth-century Mormonism and the historical moment in which the movement developed.
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Before the Boom: Mormons, Livestock, and Stewardship, 1847-1870
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Communicating in Code : Brigham Young, Thomas L. Kane, and the “Lost” Utah War Message of July 1858
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Let's Talk About Race and Priesthood
Mormon Profit: Brigham Young, Tithing, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue
Returning to the Sources : Integrating Textual Criticism in the Study of Early Mormon Texts and History
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Saving the Governor’s Bacon : Thomas L. Kane’s Political Defense of Alfred Cumming, 1859
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
Thomas L. Kane's 1858 Utah War Mission : Presidential Ingratitude and Manipulation
Utah and the American Civil War : The Written Record -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73
Albert Sidney Johnston : Soldier of Three Republics
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Sentinel for the Saints : Thomas Leiper Kane and the Mormon Migration
A Trial Furnace : Southern Utah's Iron Mission
Brigham's Destroying Angel
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young : Images of a Mormon Prophet
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Brigham Young : The New York Years
Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Brigham Young University : The First One Hundred Years
Buchanan, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mormons : The Election of 1856
Building Railroads For the Kingdom : The Career of John W. Young, 1867-91
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Camp in the Sagebrush : Camp Floyd, Utah, 1858-1861
Charles A. Scott's Diary of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1861
Coin and Currency in Early Utah
Colonel Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons, 1846-1883
Col. Thomas L. Kane and the Mormons
Coming to Zion
Encouraging the Saints : Brigham Young's Annual Tours of the Mormon Settlements
Eyes on "the Whole European World" : Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions
Fort Limhi : The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Glory Hunter : A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor
God and the People Reconsidered : Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
History of Utah State Prison, 1850-1952
"I Have Given Myself to the Devil" : Thomas L. Kane and the Culture of Honor
'In Honorable Remembrance' : Thomas L. Kane's Services to the Mormons
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
Joseph Morris and the saga of the Morrisites (revisited)
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
King of Beaver Island : The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang
Lee's Ferry : Desert River Crossing
Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Life of Brigham Young : or, Utah and Her Founders
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle; the Father and Founder of the British Mission
"Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone" : The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896
Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847
Men, Motives, and Misunderstandings : A New Look at the Morrisite War of 1862
Mormons at the Missouri : A History of the Latter-day Saints at Winter Quarters and at Kanesville, 1846-52--A Study in American Overland Trail Migration
Mormons in Mexico : The Dynamics of Faith and Culture
Mormons Study "Abroad" : Brigham Young' Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877
Mormon Thunder : A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant
"Not as a Stranger" : A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon past
One Year in Scandinavia . . . .
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
President Young Writes Jefferson Davis about the Gunnison Massacre Affair
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Refugees, Friends, and Foes : Mormons and Indians in Iowa and Nebraska
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Search for Sanctuary : Brigham Young and the White Mountain Expedition
Sentinel in the East : A Biography of Thomas L. Kane
Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe : Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
Take Up Your Mission : Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
Teach Them to Till the Soil : An Experiment with Indian Farms, 1850-1862
The Affair of the "Runaways" : Utah's First Encounter with the Federal Officers : Part 1
The Bone in the Throat : Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Constitution of the State of Deseret
The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson : Hawaii's Minister of Everything
The Federal Bench and Priesthood Authority : The Rise and Fall of John Fitch Kinney's Early Relationship with the Mormons
The Forgotten Son : William Henry Kimball
The Gardo House : A History of the Mansion and Its Occupants
The Genteel Gentile : Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858
The Italian Mission . . . .
The Life and Thought of Orson Pratt
The Lion and the Emperor : The Mormons, The Hudson Bay Company, and Vancouver Island, 1846-1858
The Mormon Battalion : U.S. Army of the West 1846-1848
The Mormons : A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The People Are "Hogaffed or Humbugged" : The 1851-52 National Reaction to Utah's
"Runaway" Officers : Part 2
The Real Utah War : The Mountaineer's Efforts to Combat the Valley Tan
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Saints and the Union : Utah Territory during the Civil War
The Salt Lake City Police Department : 1851-1949. A Social History
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879
The Suffering Saints : Thomas L. Kane, Democratic Reform, and the Mormon Question in Antebellum America
The Utah Expedition : Its Causes and Consequences
The Widow and the Lion of the Lord : Sarah Ann Cooke vs. Brigham Young
Touring Polygamous Utah with Elizabeth W. Kane, Winter 1872-1873
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
'Wild Bill' Hickman and the Mormon Frontier
William A. ('Bill') Hickman : Setting the Record Straight
"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out" : Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s
ZCMI : America's First Department Store
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900