A Winter with the Mormons: The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell

Salt Lake City: Tanner Trust Fund / J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 2001. First Edition. 242pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over red cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Color map endsheets and pastedowns. Signed by the editor on the title page. Goodell's letters open a new window on the dedicated frontier theocracy that believed it was destined to sweep to world dominion. They also reflect the militant attitude of the young millennial movement toward the American republic during its transition from the provisional State of Deseret, an independent nation-state created by Brigham Young in 1849, to a territory of the United States with the unwanted name of Utah.