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1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-339) and index. |
Contents |
Growing up in Franklin -- Years of trial and torment -- An aborted mission -- A repentant sinner finds himself -- Putting a shoulder to the wheel -- On-the-job training in Heber Valley -- Making Indian land Mormon country -- The Vernal years -- Civilizing the reservation lands -- The fourth-and final-stake presidency -- Struggle and failure in Leota -- Hard times -- The final years. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
"By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom"--Publisher's abstract. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937.
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Smart, William Henry.
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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Biography.
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Utah -- History.
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Religion.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922- Mormonism's last colonizer. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2008 9780874217223 (DLC) 2008029787 (OCoLC)234234087 |
ISBN |
9780874217230 (electronic bk.) |
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0874217237 (electronic bk.) |
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9780874217223 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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0874217229 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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1282822233 |
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9781282822238 |
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