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4322
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English
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Mormons, Mining, and the Golden Trumpet of Moroni
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Midwest Quarterly
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October 1966
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8
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67-77
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Quotes in entirety a holograph manuscript discovered by the author while gathering material for a biography of the late Senator John J. Ingalls. It's the text of a speech describing in florid oratorical style a visit to Salt Lake City and the silver mine of John J. Daly in 1896. He details dramatically the background and conditions, adulation aspects which he admires and denouncing the 'machinations of the brigands and extortioners' who repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893. His colorful vocabulary and verbose expression give us one clear facet of a period and place.