Promotional Information

An account of President Buchanan's attempt to replace Brigham Young as territorial governor of Utah and the Morman resistance to the plan.

About the Author

LeRoy R. Hafen (1893–1985) was a professor of history at Brigham Young University. He and his wife, Ann W. Hafen (1893–1970), edited Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles and are the authors of Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856–1860, both available in Bison Books editions.

Reviews

"A useful collection of documentary material which, taken as a whole, provides a basis for a more nearly impartial view of those highly partisan events which occurred just a century ago in the conflict between Mormon settlers of Utah Territory and the federal government."--Mississippi Valley Historical Review