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  • At Sword's Point, Part 1

    A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858

    by William P. MacKinnon ...
    Series Book 1 - Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier Series
    The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history of that extraordinary conflict.William P. MacKinnon offers a lively narrative linking firsthand accounts ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens

    Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era

    by Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas J. Balcerski, Douglas R. Egerton, Matthew Pinsker, William P. MacKinnon, Frank Towers, Joan Cashin, John David Smith, Michael Green, James Oakes, Bruce C. Levine, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Cape Breton English

    by Richard P. MacKinnon, William John Davey ...
    Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork.The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • On the Overland Trails with William Clark

    A Teamster's Utah War, 1857–1858

    Edited by William P. MacKinnon, Kenneth L. Alford ...
    The Utah War remains an understudied but important moment in western history as the United States wrestled with its political future. There are few primary accounts from this war, but one of the best comes from William Clark, a young teamster hired by Russell, Majors and Waddell, the West’s greatest freighters. Clark’s narrative, “A Trip Across the Plains in 1857,” was not published until 1922 and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • At Sword's Point, Part 2

    A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859

    Edited by William P. MacKinnon ...
    Series Book 2 - Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier Series
    The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon’s half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Sword’s Point presents the first full history of the conflict through ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard ...
    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Blood of the Prophets

    Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    by Will Bagley ...
    The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848

    Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848

    by Will Bagley ...
    Series series Overland West Series
    The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Mormon Rebellion

    America's First Civil War, 1857–1858

    by David L. Bigler, Will Bagley ...
    In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to show that—contrary to common perception—the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan's "blunder ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • American Massacre

    The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

    by Sally Denton ...
    In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival

    by Brian McGinty ...
    The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Unsettled Ground

    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

    by Cassandra Tate ...
    **"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—**Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.Far from a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD