Summary

Excellent history of early Utah. Tells of Mormon church leaders' efforts to establish in Utah an independent, theocratic Kingdom of God and of the resulting struggle with national republican ideology and the federal government.

Contents

Chapter

1. A Broad Open Valley
2. Founding the Kingdom
3. Early Indian Wars
4. The Kingdom Sovereign
5. The Handcart Disaster
6. The Great Reformation
7. Utah in Rebellion
8. An Awful Tale of Blood
9. Peace But No Peace
10. The Ghost Government of Deseret
11. The California Volunteers
12. Of Mines, Murder, and Land
13. The New Social Order
14. The Impending Conflict
15. A Time of Trials
16. Marshals and Cohabs
17. Americanization of the Kingdom