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31809
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English
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The Application of Federal Power in Utah Territory
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Reconstruction and Mormon America
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Norman, OK
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University of Oklahoma Press
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"Though uneven, contested, and lengthy, from the 1850s through the 1880s the government proved over and again that it would make the territory of Utah into a proper self-governing American state. The history of the federal government’s relationship with Utah Territory and particularly the way it handled infrastructural development, statehood requests, Indian affairs, and polygamy legislation highlight this larger era of growth in federal power. This long undertaking in Utah can be understood as both a construction and a reconstruction. In the larger sense of territorial supervision, the central government sought to make the Great Basin a loyal American republican place. At the same time, it had to reconstruct the Mormon people in Utah, a religious community that had already constructed a government and society that other Americans deemed illegitimate." [Author]
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A "Distinction Between Mormons and Americans" : Mormon Indian Missionaries, Federal Indian Policy, and the Utah War
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution : Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Opposition to Polygamy in the Postbellum South
Redd Slave Histories : Family, Race, and Sex in Pioneer Utah
Sagwitch : Shoshoni Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1884
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
Uintah Dream : The Ute Treaty-Spanish Fork, 1865
Unpopular Sovereignty : Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Utah's Black Hawk War
Wilford Woodruff's Journals