Product Description: The slaughter of a wagon train of some 120 people in southern Utah on September 11, 1857, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. Innocent Blood gathers key primary sources describing the tangled story of the Mountain Meadows massacre...read more

Product Description: In May 1855 twenty-seven men set out from the young Mormon settlements in Utah to establish the northernmost colony of the Kingdom of God, "the Northern Mission to the Remnants of the House of Jacob"-American Indians. More colonists, including families, would join them later...read more

Letters from a Presbyterian minister wintering in the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 en route to Oregon are filled with details of his experiences and observations of the Mormons and his very critical judgments of this community. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Giving priority to previously unpublished documents, editors David Bigler and Will Bagley have compiled, introduced, and annotated dozens of firsthand accounts and other primary sources regarding the Mormon Battalion's march and subsequent adventures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A broad examination of early Mormon efforts to establish in Utah an independent, theocratic Kingdom of God. Those bold efforts resulted in struggles with national republican ideology, Mormon opponents within and outside of Utah, and the federal government.

Product Description: Azariah Smith's journal is one of only two eyewitness accounts of the discovery of gold by James Marshall at Sutter's Fort on January 24, 1848. Introduced and annotated by western historian David L. Bigler, Smith's journal is a compelling account of an average citizen experiencing the making of western history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)