<p>Azariah Smith's journal is one of only two eyewitness accounts of the discovery of gold by James Marshall at Sutter's Fort on January 24, 1848. Introduced and annotated by western historian David L. Bigler, Smith's journal is a compelling account of an average citizen experiencing the making of western history.</p>

Gold Discovery Journal Of Azariah Smith

History

Bigler, David

Americas

Utah State University Press

<p>A broad examination of early Mormon efforts to establish in Utah an independent, theocratic Kingdom of God. Those bold efforts resulted in struggles with national republican ideology, Mormon opponents within and outside of Utah, and the federal government.</p>

Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896

In May 1855 twenty-seven men set out from the young Mormon settlements in Utah to establish the northernmost colony of the Kingdom of God, "the Northern Mission to the Remnants of the House of Jacob"-American Indians. More colonists, including families, would join them later. Building a fort in the Limhi Valley, four hundred miles to the north and at the foot of the pass by which Lewis and Clark had crossed the Continental Divide, they began to proselyte among Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives as well as members of the Bannock, Nez Percé, and other tribes. Three years later, some of their expected and actual Indian converts violently drove the colonists out and destroyed Fort Limhi. In Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858, David Bigler shows that the colony, known as the Salmon River Mission, played a pivotal role in the Utah War of 1857-1858 and that the catastrophic end of the mission was critical in keeping that conflict from becoming an all out war between Mormon Utah and the United States. In the process, he uses a multitude of primary sources, many newly uncovered or previously overlooked, to reconstruct a dramatic and compelling story involving stalwart Mormon frontiersmen, Brigham Young, a variety of Native American individuals and groups, the U. S. Army, and "mountaineers," as the surviving fur trade veterans now commonly known as "mountain men" called themselves.

Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858

The Orphan Twins Or The Adventures Of A Brother And Sister: A Poem (1849)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Orphan Twins, Or, the Adventures of a Brother and Sister: A Poem

Nabu Press

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