Item Detail
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25951
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English
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Almon W. Babbitt, Joseph E. Johnson, and the Western Bugle : An LDS Frontier
Newspaper at Kanesville -
Journal of Mormon History
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Summer 2013
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39
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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163-197
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During the trying times of the Mormon exodus to the West, two enterprising men founded a newspaper to unite the Saints, urge them to cross the plains, and encourage "Gentiles," as non-Latter-day Saints were known, to buy Mormon property. The two men were Almon W. Babbitt and Joseph E. Johnson, and their paper was the Western Bugle. They owned and managed the paper from its beginning in 1852 until 1857. For Babbitt and Johnson, both Latter-day Saint Democrats, their newspaper served as a natural expression of their feelings on both religion and politics [From the article].
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