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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Growing up in Franklin
  • Years of trial and torment
  • An aborted mission
  • A repentant sinner finds himself
  • Putting a shoulder to the wheel
  • On-the-job training in Heber Valley
  • Making Indian land Mormon country
  • The Vernal years
  • Civilizing the reservation lands
  • The fourth-and final-stake presidency
  • Struggle and failure in Leota
  • Hard times
  • The final years.