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English
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The Great Reformation : Prelude to the 1857-1858 Utah War
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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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101-110
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To sanctify and prepare his people for the Second Coming and ready them to separate from the United States, Brigham Young instituted the Reformation. Beyond purifying the members and their homes, Young hoped to flush federal officials, apostates, gentile merchants, and any other non-Mormons out of Utah. The Reformation was the spiritual side of severing the connection with the rest of America and becoming a sovereign nation, or at least a state with officials of their own choosing. As such it is an integral part of the Utah War, even though the esteemed historian Leonard J. Arrington only mentioned it in passing in his biography of Brigham Young. [From the Appreciation]
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of Utah
History of Utah, 1847-1869
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
The Mormon Reformation
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out" : Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s