1856 Mormons Latter-Day Saints Mormonism Gold Rush Utah Missouri WARS Polygamy

1856 Mormons Latter-Day Saints Mormonism Gold Rush Utah Missouri WARS Polygamy

“My aim is not to ‘shoot folly as it flies,’ but to let folly tire on its own pinions”

– J.W. Gunnison, The Mormons; preface

A fine 1856 edition of Liet. John W. Gunnison’s “The Mormons”. This pre-Civil War-era book covers the rise and social progression of the Mormons, their expedition toward Utah, and Gunnison’s own observations of their explorations. Important contents include:

• Priests as civil officers
• Origins of Mormonism
• Expectations of the Catholic church absorbing the Protestant
• Mormon deity, genealogy of gods, progression of man into Gods
• ‘many wife’ systems
• Gold rush emigrants
• On profanity
• Selection of Jackson County, Missouri as Zion
• Wars in Missouri over Mormonism
• Election of Brigham Young
• Miracles, Slavery, Indian Wars, and self-government

Item number: #26928

Price: $499

GUNNISON, J.W.

The Mormons, or, Latter-day saints, in the valley of the Great salt lake : a history of their rise and progress, peculiar doctrines, present condition, and prospects, derived from personal observation: during a residence among them

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • ix, [1], 13-168, 48
• References: Sabin 29285; Howes G 463; Wagner-Camp 213; Flake/Draper 3750
• Provenance: Handwritten – Michael Stum, 1856
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Green cloth
• Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm)

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