Item Detail
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32451
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English
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Communicating in Code : Brigham Young, Thomas L. Kane, and the “Lost” Utah War Message of July 1858
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 2021
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89
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4
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Illinois
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University of Illinois
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"The purpose of this article is to surface a heretofore unknown effort by Brigham Young to bridge this latter communications gap through an encrypted message he wrote to Kane on July 21, 1858, that was couriered east and delivered to Kane in Pennsylvania during late September. During the subsequent 163 years, the existence (but not the meaning) of this coded message was known only to a handful of people. Our article outlines the process by which we recently realized there was such a message, worked to access it, collaborated with a small international community of code breakers to decrypt it, and then assessed the message’s historical context and significance. Our intent in presenting this previously 'lost' document is to shed new light on the Young-Kane relationship and the plans of these two friends for dealing with the federal government in the immediate aftermath of the Utah War’s military phase. We also want to provide a dramatic example of the value of interdisciplinary collaboration among archivists, historians, and cryptologists to enrich the historical record." [Authors]
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