Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869
Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988. First Edition. 346pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Item #7965
In the late 1850s, United States president James Buchanan sent 2,000 troops to the desert territory to subdue the reportedly rebellious Mormons. Angry Utahns responded by waging guerrilla warfare and adopting a scorched-earth policy. After the military campaign, Mormon settlers continued to assert their independence in other ways—by refusing to associate with Gentile outsiders, by fixing wholesale and retail prices, and by capitalizing on the homogenous, regimented structure of their community to import half a million immigrants to the new Zion.
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