Teachings of President Brigham Young, Volume 3: 1852-1854
by Young, Brigham. Edited by Fred C. Collier
Salt Lake City: Collier's Publishing Company, 1987. First Edition. 498pp. Octavo [22 cm] Pictorial blue boards. Near fine. Uncommon work from the outspoken fundamentalist and prolific defender of same. Brigham Young (1801-1877), second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and first Governor of Utah, was the founder and chief builder of the Intermountain West and the Great Basin. He is recognized as one of the foremost colonizers and empire builders of all time.
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Acceptance of the Statue of Brigham Young, Presented by the State of Utah
by [Brigham Young]
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. 73pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Pictorial endsheets and pastedowns. Near fine. Inscribed by U.S. Senator from Utah, Elbert D. Thomas and his wife Edna on the front pastedown. Illustrated work containing a biographical sketch and tributes to the American Moses, Brigham Young. Sen. Thomas offered one of the tributes. Dedicatory prayer by George Albert Smith.
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Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1847-1850
by Young, Brigham. Edited by Fred C. Collier and William S. Harwell
Salt Lake City: Collier's Publishing Company, 1997. First Edition. 368pp. Octavo [22 cm] Dark blue buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Brigham Young (1801-1877), was the second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and first Governor of Utah, was the founder and chief builder of the Intermountain West and the Great Basin. He is recognized as one of the foremost colonizers and empire builders of all time.... Read More
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The First Military Escort on the Santa Fe Trail 1829. From the Journal and Reports of Major Bennet Riley and Lieutenant Philip St. George Cooke
by Young, Otis E.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1952. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Volume 7 of the American Trail Series. The journals of Riley and Cooke recount the governmental response to demands for protection of the Santa Fe caravans. The accounts include information on the fur trade, the Bents, international relations, and the trial and introduction of oxen... Read More
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And the places which knew him once shall know him no more for ever.
by [Polygamy] [Brigham Young]
1910. Post Card [9 cm x 14 cm] Divided back. Cancel and manuscript note: "What do you know about this." Photograph of a cartoon that was printed and sold by E. M. Smith & Co. that shows a row of pajama clad women sitting up in one long bed, some weeping. The headboard is labeled: 'Brigham Young's Bedstead.' At the foot of the bed is a row of infants in cribs, each is crib is numbered (541-550). ... Read More
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The Edmunds Law. Unlawful Cohabitation, as Defined by Chief Justice Chas. S. Zane, the Territory of Utah, in the Trial of Angus M. Cannon, Esq., in the Third District Court, Salt Lake City, April 27, 28, 29, 1885. Full Report of the Arguments as to the Term Cohabitation in the Above Law. Reported John Irvine
by Zane, Charles S.
Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1885. First Edition. 118pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Light blue printed wrappers with the title printed on the backstrip. Near fine. Ink smudge on cover with numbers in ink at foot and head. Covers and contents are bright. The Edmunds Act was part of a string of bills and laws passed by the federal government outlawing polygamy, that would reach an apex with the Edmund Tucker act that was passed in 1887. These laws... Read More
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Kawaiisu: A Grammar and Dictionary with Texts
by Zigmond, Maurice L.; Curtis G. Booth, and Pamela Munro
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 399pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Printed white and orange wrappers. Better than very good. Kawaiisu, a language of the Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan now spoken by only a few people in central California's Kern County, has until now been rather poorly described. Kawaiisu is a member of the Southern Munic subgroup, the other members of which form a dialect chain from Chemehuevi in the west through Southern Paiute to Ute in the east. ... Read More
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Thomas L. Kane: Ambassador to the Mormons
by Zobell, Albert L.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1944. Thesis. 93pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Near fine. Typescript of a master's thesis on Thomas L. Kane, which is the basis for the Zobell's 1965 book 'Sentinel in the East: A Biography of Thomas L. Kane. Although never Mormon himself, Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883) nonetheless was a friend and confidante of Brigham Young. While still a young man he become interested in... Read More
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Sentinel in the East: A Biography of Thomas L. Kane
by Zobell, Albert L.
Salt Lake City: Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr, 1965. First Edition. 260pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Although never Mormon himself, Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883) nonetheless was a friend and confidante of Brigham Young. While still a young man he become interested in the Mormon cause, and gave up his practice of law to make a trip west in 1847. During President Buchanan's administration serious trouble... Read More
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