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Stenhouse Rocky Mountain Saints 1873

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Title: The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young, Including the Story of the Hand-Cart Emigration, the Mormon War, the Mountain-Meadow Massacre, the Reign of Terror in Utah, the Doctrine of Human Sacrifice . . .
Author: Stenhouse, T[homas] B.
Description: xxiv, 761 pp. Wood-engraved plates & illustrations; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. (8vo) sympathetically rebound in dark green morocco and marbled boards to match original gilt morocco spine laid down. First Edition.Stenhouse was for 25 years a Mormon elder and missionary, and editor and proprietor of the Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, who later turned against the religion and revealed details about polygamy, etc. Flake 8404; Mintz 442.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: D. Appleton
Date Published: 1873