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Article Title

Review of At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858; At Sword’s Point, Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859, edited by William P. MacKinnon.

Authors

Brent M. Rogers

Keywords

Utah War, Settling Utah

Abstract

In two hefty and wide-ranging volumes that represent the culmination of some sixty years of dedicated and careful labor, William P. MacKinnon delivers the most thorough investigation into the complex history of the Utah War to date. Readers will have to wade through more than eleven hundred pages of documents and editorial commentary— as well as more than fifty pages of bibliographic data—to realize the benefits of MacKinnon’s sleuthing, but anyone who takes the time to carefully sort through the unexpected turns and intrigue of MacKinnon’s presentation will ultimately be rewarded with a deeper

understanding of a significant federal-territorial conflict that arose in a tumultuous time in the nation’s history.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Rogers, Brent M. (2018) "Review of At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858; At Sword’s Point, Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859, edited by William P. MacKinnon.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18809/msr.2018.0117
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol5/iss1/11