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English
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Seeing the Elephant in Utah : The Gold Rush and the Mormon Kingdom
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Confessions of a Revisionist Historian : David L. Bigler on the Mormons and the West
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Tanner Trust Fund
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63-77
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Here we find the earliest conflicts between the church leaders and Gold Rushers who by circumstances had to spend a winter in Utah. Much of what being a U.S. citizen meant was denied to these winter residents, and instead they were subjected to theocratic law, denial of free speech, and little economic freedom. It was the start of the collision between the American republic and the Utah theocracy. [From the Appreciation]
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Brigham's Destroying Angel
Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
Fruits of Mormonism, or, a Fair and Candid Statement of Facts Illustrative of Mormon Principles, Mormon Policy, and Mormon Character, by More Than Forty Eye-Witnesses
Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines, or a Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake
The Plains Across : The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60