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Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles, 1849-1896
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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"Utah's quest for statehood lasted longer, involved more political intrigue, and garnered more national attention than any other US territory. While Utahns-especially the Mormon population-hoped statehood would grant them increased political autonomy, the several decades of refusal by church leadership to denounce polygamy stalled even the most carefully executed political schemes. Even without the albatross of polygamy, the territory presented a unique set of challenges. Lingering distrust toward the federal government blurred the lines separating church and state. LDS leaders considered themselves anointed by God to lead the government. Officials sent from Washington to dilute Mormon control found themselves in hostile, dangerous terrain. Aware of the complexity of this fifty-year struggle, historian Edward Leo Lyman carefully traces the key figures, events, and cultural shifts leading to Utah's admission to the Union. Utilizing an abundance of careful research, Finally Statehood! is a unique attempt to understand the state's history on both a local and national level, with each political roadblock, religious conflict, and earnest attempt at compromise meticulously examined under the vantage of time."
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Constitution for Utah
A Historical Study of the Congressional Career of John T. Caine
A History of the Constitutional Conventions of the Territory of Utah from 1849-1895
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
A Mormon Transition in Idaho Politics
And the War Came : James Buchanan, the Utah Expedition, and the Decision to Intervene
An Examination of Mormon and Non-Mormon Influence in Ogden City Politics, 1847-1896
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History
'A Samaritan had passed by' : George Miller - Mormon Bishop, Trailblazer, and Brigham Young Antagonist
A Stench in the Nostrils of Honest Men : Southern Democrats and the Edmunds Act of 1882
A Study of the Utah Commission, 1882-96
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
'At Their Peril' : Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
B. H. Roberts : A Biography
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Bryan, Populism, and Utah
Builders of the Kingdom : George A. Smith, John Henry Smith, George Albert Smith
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle : The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895
Carpetbag Rule : Territorial Government in Utah
Charles S. Zane : Apostle of the New Era
Charter for Statehood : The Story of Utah's State Constitution
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
Civil War Saints
Conflict and Fraud: Utah Public Land Surveys in the 1850s, the Subsequent Investigation and Problems with the Land Disposal System
Conflict in the Quorum : Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith
Crusade against Theocracy : The Reminiscence of Judge Jacob Smith Boreman of Utah, 1872-1877
Cultures in Conflict : A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois
Danish Apostle : The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, 1890-1921
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Dr. John M. Bernhisel : Mormon Elder in Congress
Early Utah Journalism
Elimination of the Mormon Issue from Arizona Politics, 1889-1894
Establishing and Maintaining Land Ownership in Utah Prior to 1869
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Federal Authority Versus Polygamic Theocracy : James B. McKean and the Mormons, 1870-1875
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
'General' John Wilson, Signer of the Deseret Petition : Including Letters from the Leonard Collection
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
'Good Guys' vs. 'Good Guys' : Rudger Clawson, John Sharp, and Civil Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Utah
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Heber M. Wells and the Beginnings of Utah's Statehood
History of California 1552-[1890]
History of Joseph Smith
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the Provo Times and Enquirer, 1873-1897
History of Utah
History of Utah 1540-1886
History of Utah, 1847-1869
Horace Greeley : "Brigham Young Interview"
In Their Own Behalf : The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
In the President's Office : The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879-1892
Isaac Trumbo and the Politics of Utah Statehood
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
Joseph L. Rawlins : Father of Utah's Statehood
Land Contest in Early Utah
Larger than Texas : Proposals to Combine California and Mormon Deseret as One State
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Life of Franklin D. Richards : President of the Council of the Twelve Apostles Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Lights and Shadows of Mormonism
"Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone" : The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Legend and a Monumental Crime
Minutes of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Conceptions of Individual Rights and Political Obligation
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormon Leaders in Politics : The Transition to Statehood in 1896
Mormons and Mormonism in U.S. Government Documents : A Bibliography
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 : "And Should We Die"
Mormons in Texas : The Ill-Fated Lyman Wight Colony, 1844-1858
Mormon Theory of Church and State
Mormon Thunder : A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant
Nevada's Anti-Mormon Legislation of 1887 and Southern Idaho Annexation
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
On the Potter's Wheel : The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball
Our New West
Plural Marriage and Religious Freedom : The Impact of Reynolds v. United States
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy, Mormonism, and Me
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Reed Smoot : Apostle in Politics
Reminiscences of Early Utah
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Rocky Mountain Empire : The Latter-Day Saints Today
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Search for Sanctuary : Brigham Young and the White Mountain Expedition
Sinners and Saints : A Tour across the States, and Round them, with Three Months among the Mormons
Sister-Wives and Suffragists : Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Political Aspects of Early Mormon-'Gentile' Relations, 1830-1850 : Interpretation of Contemporary Sources of Public Opinion
Statehood, Political Allegiance, and Utah's First U.S. Senate Seats : Prizes for the National Parties and Local Factions
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
The Admission of Utah
The Alienation of an Apostle from his Quorum : The Moses Thatcher Case
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Awkward State of Utah : Coming of Age in the Nation 1896-1945
The B. H. Roberts Case of 1898-1900
The Constitution of the State of Deseret
The Council of Fifty : A Documentary History
The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff
The First 100 Years : A History of the Salt Lake Tribune, 1871-1971
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The Incidence of Mormon Polygamy in 1880 : 'Dixie' versus Davis Stake
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Making of a Mormon Apostle : The Story of Rudger Clawson
The Manifesto Was a Victory!
The March of the Mormon Battalion from Council Bluffs to California Taken from the Journal of Henry Standage
The Mormon Battalion : U.S. Army of the West 1846-1848
The Mormon Church on Trial : Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Country : A Summer with the 'Latter-day Saints'
The Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : An American Elite
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Issue in Congress, 1872-1882, Drawing on the Experience of Territorial Delegate George Q. Cannon
The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons in Politics : The First Hundred Years
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Overland Journey from Utah to California : Wagon Travel from the City of the Saints to the City of Angels
The Political Attitude of the Mormons
The Political Background of the Woodruff Manifesto
The Political Reconstruction of Utah Territory, 1866-1890
The Principle Revoked : A Closer Look at the Demise of Plural Marriage
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Separation of Church and State in Mormon Theory and Practice
The State of Deseret
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Taylor-Cowley Affair and the Watershed of Mormon History
The Twin Relic : A Study of Mormon Polygamy and the Campaign by the Government of the United States for its Abolition, 1852-1890
'The Twin Relic of Barbarism' : A Legal History of Anti-Polygamy in Nineteenth Century America
The Unusual Jurisdiction of County Probate Courts in the Territory of Utah
The Utah Expedition, 1857-58
The Utah Federal Courts and the Areas of Conflict, 1850-1896
The Utah War
The Wonderlands of the Wild West, with Sketches of the Mormons
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Thirteenth Apostle : The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832-1877
Thomas L. Kane and Utah's Quest for Self-Government, 1846-51
Tullidge's Histories. Volume II
Under the Prophet in Utah : The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
Unwilling Martyr : The Death of Young Ed Dalton
Utah and Its People
Utah and the Nation
Utah As It Is, with a Comprehensive Statement of Utah As It Was
Utah State Elections, 1895-1899
Utah : The Different State
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Wives and Other Women : Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Lives of John Q. Cannon, Frank J. Cannon, and Abraham H. Cannon
Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
Woman Suffrage in the American West, 1869-1896
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900