Defending Zion: George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857

Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. First Edition. 463pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the front board and backstrip. Fine. Volume 5 in the ambitious and well received 'Kingdom in the West' series. In a labor extending over several years, Roger Robin Ekins has collected Cannon's writings from the Western Standard and the editorials and articles of the opposition press, along with the young missionary's correspondence with Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Daniel H. Wells. Woven together with explanatory text, these documents paint a vivid picture of the heated debate that raged over the new religion as it approached one of its greatest crises, the Utah War of 1857-1858. Clark & Brunet 12.