Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imperium in imperio : sovereignty and the American territorial system
  • Intimate contact : gender, plural marriage, and the U.S. Army in Utah Territory, 1854-1856
  • Missionaries to the Indians : Mormon and federal Indian policies
  • Confronting the "twin relics of barbarism" : the Mormon question, the Buchanan administration, and the limits of popular sovereignty
  • The Utah War and the westward march of federal sovereignty, 1857-1858
  • The U.S. Army and the symbolic conquering of Mormon sovereignty
  • To 1862 : the codification of federal authority and the end of popular sovereignty in the western territories.