To Utah With The Dragoons And Glimpses Of Life In Arizona And California 1858-1859

LANGLEY, HAROLD D. [EDITED BY]

Publication: University of Utah Press, 1974, Salt Lake City

First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on front cover and spine, decorated tan front and rear endpapers, xvi, 230 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, frontispiece, maps, chapter end footnotes, bibliographical essay, bibliography, index. In 1858 a young recruit in the Second Dragoons marched across the plains with the U. S. Army's Sixth Column to help end the rebellion by the Mormons of Utah against the authority of the federal government. By the time the Sixth Column had reached Utah the "rebellion" among the Mormons had been resolved, but the young recruit, a former newspaperman, wrote articles about the war as well as the spectacular scenery, the Indians of the territory, and the daily life of a dragoon. Also many personal narratives, skirmishes with Indians, mining for gold, etc. Fine in dust jacket.

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