This excellent book (with Part II to follow) continues Clark’s “Kingdom in the West” series. The volumes will surely become the definitive history of the Utah War (1857-58) in which the Army invaded a hostile Utah territory to replace Brigham Young with a non-Mormon governor. The campaign, often described as bloodless, was not. MacKinnon, with his extended quotes from diaries and other documents, plus his own scholarly commentary, is especially good at covering the planning of th
October 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Captain Ransom, Texas Ranger
- Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail
- The Overland Journey
- Early Texas Schools
- The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade
- Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin (Children’s Book)
- A Promise To Believe In
- The Pirooters
- Return of the Spirit Rider
- The Story of Benjamin Tyler Henry and His Famed Repeating Rifle
- At Sword’s Point
- The Next Classic Buddy Film
More In This Issue
- Chimney Wells Roundup
- Stutterin’ Across Jimmy Stewart Country
- What’s in the Bag?
- Top Artist on the Taos Society Totem
- Birth of a Breed
- Preservation: Cash for the Nellie Cashman
- Kingsville, Texas
- Buckeye Blake
- Surviving Geronimo’s Raiders
- The Perfect Pair
- America’s Favorite Bone Detective
- Wyatt & Witches & Pixies, Oh My!
- Brothers of Blood
- Following Jack Slade’s Stagecoach Trail
- The Taming of the Artist
- Sioux on the Beach