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At Sword's Point, Part 2 : A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859
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Norman, OK
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University of Oklahoma Press
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704
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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. MacKinnon's half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Sword's Point presents the first full history of the conflict through the voices of participants—leaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnon's lively narrative, continued in this second volume, links and explains these firsthand accounts to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced view of the war to date.
At Sword’s Point, Part 2 carries the story of the Utah War from the end of 1857 to the conclusion of hostilities in June 1858, when Brigham Young was replaced as territorial governor and almost one-third of the U.S. Army occupied Utah. Through the testimony of Mormon and federal leaders, combatants, emissaries, and onlookers, this second volume describes the war's final months and uneasy resolution. President James Buchanan and his secretary of war, John B. Floyd, worked to break a political-military stalemate in Utah, while Mormon leaders prepared defensive and aggressive countermeasures ranging from an attack on Forts Bridger and Laramie to the "Sebastopol Strategy" of evacuating and torching Salt Lake City and sending 30,000 Mormon refugees on a mass exodus and fighting retreat toward Mexican Sonora. Thomas L. Kane, self-appointed intermediary and Philadelphia humanitarian, sought a peaceful conclusion to the conflict, which ended with the arrival in Utah of President Buchanan's two official peace commissioners, the president's blanket pardon for Utah's population, and the army's peaceful march into the Salt Lake Valley.
MacKinnon's narrative weaves a panoramic yet intimate view of a turning point in western, Mormon, and American history far bloodier than previously understood. With its sophisticated documentary analysis and insight, this work will stand as the definitive history of the complex, consequential, and still-debated Utah War.
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Across the Desert in 1858 : Thomas L. Kane’s Mediating Mission and the Mormon Women Who Made It Possible
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
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
Enlisted for the Duration : Discovering the Utah War, Writing At Sword's Point
Exodus and the Utah War : Tales from the Mormon Move South, 1858
Exodus and the Utah War : Tales from the Mormon Move South, 1858
Faithful and Fearless : Major Howard Egan : Early Mormonism and the Pioneering of the American West
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Into the Fray : Sam Houston's Utah War
Invoking the Name of the Lord : A Quantitative Study
Island Adventures : The Hawaiian Mission of Francis A. Hammond
"I Was Not Ready to Die Yet" : William Stowell's Utah War Ordeal
Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton Bernhisel
Mormons in the Piazza : History of the Latter-Day Saints in Italy
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
The Mormon Military Experience: 1838 to the Cold War
Thomas L. Kane's 1858 Utah War Mission : Presidential Ingratitude and Manipulation
"To Merge Them into More Wholesome Social Elements" : The Greater Reconstruction and Its Place in Utah
Utah and the American Civil War : The Written Record
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
"We have now the Territory on wheels" : Direct and Collateral Costs of the 1858 Move South
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books