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	General Mormon History
	New York Beginnings
	Kirtland Period
	Missouri Period
	Nauvoo Period
	Utah Period
	Utah War
	Economic LDS History
	Mormon Battalion (Mexican War)
	Mormon Polygamy
	Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Recommended Books - Utah

Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869

Campbell, Eugene E., Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT.

Book Description:

Eugene Campbell describes a rugged people at the frontier of the nineteenth-century American West. Mormon pioneers fought Indians-sometimes taking scalps-battled mountain men and supported vigilante justice. Mormon settlers asserted their independence by capitalizing on the homogenous, regimented structure of their community to import half a million immigrants to the new Zion.

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Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Alexander, Thomas G., University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL
Online book review: "Thoughtful. . . . An objective examination of the church's changing position on political involvement, plural marriage, business relations, administrative reorganization, doctrinal redefinition, missionary work, and education." -- Choice Buy it now! Received MHA's Best Book Award -- 1986

Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood

Lyman, Edward Leo, University of Illinois Press,Urbana, IL.

Online book description:

Political Deliverance chronicles how Mormon officials and their allies overcame the seemingly insurmountable barriers blocking Utah’s admission to the Union as our forty-fifty state. Lyman shows that – from the federal governments’s viewpoint – the two greatest barriers were the Mormon practice of plural marriage and the Church domination of its Latter-day Saint political life. Sine the Church had no plans at that time to abandon either practice (and yet still desired statehood), its greatest challenge lay in removing these issues from public and congressional debate. Based on exhaustive research into the Church Archives to which Lyman had substantial access, Political Deliverance reveals in detail just how this was accomplished.

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