Description: Utahs Black Hawk War Provo Pleasant Grove Spanish Fork Mormon LDS Peterson __________________________________________________ Utahs Black Hawk Warby John Alton Peterson Published by The University of Utah (1998) Condition:Excellent Softcover Book! NO MARKS! The binding is tight and all 432 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The cover has a very slight curl, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:A first-rate investigation into a little-known episode of the Indian Wars. Although it raged for nearly a decade and cost a few hundred lives, Utah's Black Hawk War is rarely mentioned in histories of the American West. In that war, a Ute elder named Black Hawk gathered an army of Utes, Shoshones, Navajos, and Paiutes and attacked Mormon livestock-raising settlements throughout central and southern Utah, determined to drive the ranchers from their country. The conflict was little advertised as it was happening, even within Utah, writes Peterson, in large part because the Mormon Church carefully disguised its existence; Brigham Young and other church leaders feared that the federal government would use the Indian uprising as a pretext to send in troops who, after the Indians had been properly chastised, might turn their attention to polygamists and other of the territory's nonconformists. Quietly, then, Mormon militiamen battled Black Hawk's people in a war that, Peterson holds, was "an anomaly in Western history.'' It was an anomaly because in the territories bordering Utah frenzied campaigns against Indians were then being mounted (after a couple of miners were murdered in Colorado in 1863, for instance, federal troops slaughtered hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapahos in the Sand Creek Massacre), and by comparison Utah's actions were conducted with much restraint. It was also an anomaly because Brigham Young's agents, convinced that the Indians were connected to the lost tribes of Israel, sought to make peace at every turn and labored "to encourage the Latter-day Saints to lay down their vengeful feelings.'' The frontier artist George Catlin, Peterson reveals, even went so far as to propose a grand Mormon-Indian alliance to battle the federal government as "mutual protection against the invading military forces which are entering the great Far West on every side.'' That alliance never materialized. Neither, however, did the anti-Indian reprisals and vendettas that occurred elsewhere in 19th-century America. Although it is a lightly revised doctoral dissertation, Peterson's book is accessible to and highly recommended for all readers with an interest in western history. Some Book Reviews:5/5 stars - Excellent book!Peterson provides the most thorough account of the Black Hawk War to date. He approaches the subject with even-handedness and without agenda. In the Utah Historical Quarterly, Sondra Jones accused Peterson of being too biased in favor of Black Hawk at the expense of Brigham Young. On the contrary, Peterson shows Young to be a well-meaning, but flawed human being. He points out the relative level of peace that Young was able to maintain in Utah (when compared with other territories at that time) and does not shield the reader from the atrocious violence perpetrated by Mormons, gentiles, or Indians. This will be the standard for scholarship on the Black Hawk War for a long time to come.--Lucy Crawford 5/5 stars - Amazing HistoryDr. Peterson has done a brilliant job of writing and teaching in this work. This book is a must for anyone interested in Mormon, Utah, Western or U.S. history. You will see Utah and the Mormon Church in a whole new light. Dr. Peterson is magnificent in his research, historical honesty, writing method and using original sources. this is a book I treasure. Thank you Dr. Peterson--Andy Skelton Copyright © 2018-2023 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.
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Features: Excellent Condition!
Format: Paperback
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Item Width: 6in.
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 1in.
Topic: Utah Indian Wars, Utah History, Spanish Fork Utah History, Pleasant Grove Utah History, Utah Valley History, LDS Involvement with Indian Wars
Book Series: LDS
Vintage: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 1999
Item Weight: 23.2 Oz
Book Title: Utah's Black Hawk War
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Author: John Alton Peterson
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: University of Utah Press
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Genre: History
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Type: History
