Item Detail
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9458
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20
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English
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Carpetbag Rule : Territorial Government in Utah
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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April 1958
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26
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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107-29
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A brief survey of the challenges and problems faced by the various federal appointees to Utah territorial government between 1850 and 1896. Cooley shows that the perspectives of the Mormons and the Gentile appointees were different, and that one of the reasons for conflict was the Mormon loyalty to the Church first and the government second. He holds that, for the most part, the territorial officials were neither scoundrels nor incompetent, but, rather, men of average intellengence facing 'the task of bringing a religious autocracy into conformity with a republican government,' which turned out to be a herculean task. Interpretive in nature, not focusing on individuals as much as on issues.
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