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By Matthew J. Grow,Ronald W. Walker

till his dying in 1877, Brigham younger guided the non secular, monetary, and political lifetime of the Mormon group, whose settlements unfold during the West and provoked a profound political, criminal, or even army disagreement with the yankee kingdom. younger first met Thomas L. Kane at the plains of western Iowa in 1846. younger got here to depend on Kane, 21 years his junior, as his so much depended on outdoor adviser, making Kane crucial non-Mormon within the background of the Church. In go back, not anyone inspired the course of Kane's existence greater than younger. The letters exchanged through the 2 provide an important insights into Young's own existence and perspectives in addition to his activities as a political and spiritual chief. The Prophet and the Reformer deals a whole replica of the surviving letters among the Mormon prophet and the Philadelphia reformer. The correspondence finds the concepts of the Latter-day Saints in when it comes to American tradition and govt in the course of those the most important years while the "Mormon query" was once an incredible political, cultural, and criminal factor. The letters additionally shed vital gentle at the principally forgotten "Utah warfare" of 1857-58, caused whilst President James Buchanan dispatched an army day trip to make sure federal supremacy in Utah and exchange younger with a non-Mormon governor.

This annotated number of their correspondence finds greatly approximately those notable males, whereas additionally offering an important perception into nineteenth-century Mormonism and the historic second during which the circulation developed.

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