Camp Floyd and the Mormons

Camp Floyd and the Mormons
Author :
Publisher : Utah Centennial Series
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : IND:30000107490678
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Camp Floyd and the Mormons by : Donald R. Moorman

Download or read book Camp Floyd and the Mormons written by Donald R. Moorman and published by Utah Centennial Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake at the outbreak of the Civil War. The book describes the relationship between the invading army and the local Mormon population, gives an account of Indian affairs in Utah, and describes the activities of federal officials in Utah during that volatile period. Completed posthumously by Gene Sessions, Moorman's colleague at Weber State University, Camp Floyd and the Mormons is a comprehensive analysis of the history of frontier Utah as a decade of isolation ended and confrontations with the United States government began. Moorman had unprecedented access to materials in the LDS Church Archives on subjects ranging from the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the Mormon responses to the presence of the army in Utah from 1858 through 1861. First published by the University of Utah Press in 1992, this reprint edition includes a new introduction by Gene Sessions in which he recounts Moorman's research adventures during the 1960s "in the bowels of the old Church Administration Building, where Joseph Fielding Smith and A. Will Lund watched over the contents of the archives like wide-eyed mother hens."


Camp Floyd and the Mormons Related Books

Camp Floyd and the Mormons
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Donald R. Moorman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Utah Centennial Series

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the aband
Recollections of Past Days
Language: en
Pages: 467
Authors: Sandra Ailey Petree
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-10 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie hand
Civil War Saints
Language: en
Pages: 569
Authors: Kenneth L. Alford
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Collection of essays and articles about the US Civil War, with a focus on, but not limited to, people who were either members or later became members of The Chu
Unpopular Sovereignty
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Brent M. Rogers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply c
The Civil War Years in Utah
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: John Gary Maxwell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-29 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s p