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Navigating the Missouri
William E. Lass
The complete history of steamboating on the Missouri River
Forming the most important river corridor in the trans-Mississippi West, the Missouri and its navigable tributaries were instrumental in opening the...
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At Sword's Point, Part 1
William P. MacKinnon
The definitive account of a crucial but enigmatic American episode
The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American...
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Bones in the Well
By Beth S. Moore
The massacre at Haun’s Mill is a defining moment in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormon Church. The Mormons were at war in 1838. They had come to Missouri at the urging of their prophet,...
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Doing the Works of Abraham, Mormon Polygamy
Edited by B. Carmon Hardy
Celestial Marriage—the “doctrine of the plurality of wives”—polygamy. No issue in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (popularly known as the Mormon Church) has attracted more attention. From its...
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Alex Swan and the Swan Companies
by Lawrence M. Woods , PhD
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle...
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Reflections of a Mormon Historian
Essays by Leonard J. Arrington, Edited by Reid L. Neilson, and Ronald W. Walker
Conflict between matters of faith and historical truth has been a conundrum at the heart of doing and telling the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). Some of the best...
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The Journal of John Work
by William S. Lewis, and Paul C. Phillips, Introduction to Second Printing by Dr. Robert C. Carriker
John Work was arguably the most proficient explorer of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest. His journals are among the most important records of the fur trade in the Northwest. This publication, originally issued in...
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History May Be Searched in Vain
Col. Sherman L. Fleek
The only religious unit in American military history. The Mormon battalion was unique in federal service, having been recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. Serving in the...
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On the Way to Somewhere Else
edited by Michael W. Homer
A kaleidoscopic picture of Mormonism, its adherents, and the Far West landscape pours forth from the Prussian, German, Italian, and Belgian travelers who encountered the "Mormonite" religious revolutionaries on the...
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Alaskana Catholica
by Louis L. Renner , S.J.
Beginning in 1873, messengers of the Roman Catholic faith set out to preach the gospel and build institutions for good in Alaska. In the small villages and nomadic camps, these men and women began their work, which is chronicled...
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John Frank Stevens
by Odin Baugh
Builder of railroads throughout the United States, Canada, and Russia, designer and constructor of the Panama Canal, discoverer of mountain passes, and advisor to railway officials--all of these accomplishments give evidence that...
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Guarding the Overland Trails
by Robert Huhn Jones
The Civil War left the western trails vulnerable and dangerous. Emigrants still streamed westward and demanded protection. The mail still had to be delivered, the telegraph protected. The newly minted states of California and...
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Sacagawea's Child
by Susan M. Colby
With Lewis and Clark from the moment of his birth, little "Pomp," whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, journeyed from North Dakota to the Pacific and back in the arms of his mother, Sacagawea. In his sixty-one...
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The Man from the Rio Grande
by William B. Secrest
Like some mysterious Paladin, Harry Love seemed to suddenly appear on the California landscape at a time when he was particularly needed. As captain of the California Rangers, Love pursued Joaquin Murrieta and his bandits, and...
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