The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
signed first edition Hardcover
2016 · Norman, OK
by Maxwell, John Gary
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED. 470 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Black cloth over boards. Silver pressed lettering on the back strip. Author signature on the title page. From the publisher: "In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the earth. Three decades (truncated)