Mormonism's last colonizer: the life and times of William H. Smart
"By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes....
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Logan, Utah
Utah State University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Further subjects: | B
Smart, William Henry
B Smart, William H - 1862-1937 B Latter Day Saints B Mormons (Utah) Biography B History B Saints des derniers jours - Utah - Biographies B Utah B Smart, William H (William Henry) (1862-1937) B Utah - Histoire B Biographies B Mormons B Latter Day Saints (Utah) Biography B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Historical B Utah History B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Religious B Smart, William H B Electronic books B RELIGION ; Christianity ; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) |
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| Summary: | "By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom"--Publisher's abstract |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-339) and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 347 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87421-722-3 0-87421-723-7 978-1-282-82223-8 1-282-82223-3 978-0-87421-723-0 0-87421-722-9 |
