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494n17
Robert the Bruce (king of
Scott, Winfield, 120, 322
Scotland), 154
seal rings, Mormon gold made into, 88,
Robertson, Hudson & Pulliam,
93, 104–105, 385
New York City, 282
Sevier Stake, 489
Robertson, Thomas James, 416n9
Seward, William H., 103, 199
Robison, Lewis, 249–250, 252, 428
Shakespeare, William
Rockwell, Orrin Porter, 29, 30, 31n23,
Julius Caesar, 231n12
227, 246, 255
As You Like It, 75n27
Rockwood, A. P., 313
Sharp, John, 406
Rosencrans, William S., 487n14
Shaver, Leonidas, 161n12–13, 176, 219
Rucker, Oliver H., 292n11
Sherman, William T., 387, 388
“runaways” controversy, 123–131, 138–144, Shields, Elizabeth Kane (sister of
349n18, 357n2
Thomas L. Kane), 398
Shoshone Indians, 246, 337n6
Salt Lake City
Siddons, Sarah Kemble, 365
army marching through, 276,
signet rings, Mormon gold made into,
279–280
88, 93, 104–105, 385
discovery of site of, 43
silver. See gold and silver
evacuation during Utah War, 250–251, Sinclair, Charles F.
259, 266–267, 279n15, 280
adjourned term of, 340, 341
liquor taxes in, 447
appointment of Gilbert by, 296
observatory planned for, 62
collusion between army and federal
police force in, 299, 301, 309, 311–312
judges, Mormon fears of, 323, 324,
return of Mormons to, after Utah
328, 330
War, 280, 299, 301
Craig and, 307
road to California from, 178
Mormon complaints about, 309, 311,
Social Hall, 346
314, 316n1, 318, 320
Temple Square, 278, 479, 509
Sioux, 21, 46
Index
537
slavery
on Hiram Morrell as
Babbitt’s statements regarding Utah’s
Postmaster, 295n20
position on, 102–103
on Mountain Meadows massacre,
Cannon on, 304
345, 349
combined California-Utah state
opposition of territorial officials and, 209
proposal and, 71–72
Parowan, Utah settled by, 135
Compromise of 1850, 11, 83–84,
peace conference, participation in,
91, 103n40
279n14, 280
Free Soil Party, 68, 69, 76n28, 84, 91,
replacement of Young as Trustee-in-
95, 392, 394n12
Trust, 463, 478n16, 479
fugitive slave law, 83
statehood application and, 190, 191,
Hunker (proslavery) wing of
192, 194, 196, 199, 200, 207n40
Democratic Party, 118
Utah War and, 228, 243
Kane’s opposition to, 6, 97, 378
will of Brigham Young and, 462
Mormon official neutrality on, 69,
Yates case and, 428–429, 440, 445
70, 97–98, 190, 195, 199, 201
Young complaining about territorial
plural marriage linked to, 191–192, 199
officials to, 204
in Utah territory, 98n24, 195–196
Smith, Hyrum, 206
Young’s views on, 169, 195–196
Smith, John, 28, 106, 129, 154, 162,
sleigh robe made for Kane and lent to
185, 206
brother Elisha, 88–89, 93, 104,
Smith, Joseph
165–166
assassination of, 433
Smith, Bathsheba (widow of George A.
Civil War revelation of, 371n9
Smith), 510
Doniphan’s refusal to execute, 142
Smith, Edward Parmelee, 466
joined by other saints in heaven, 206
Smith, Elias, 462
Strang’s claim of successorship
Smith, George A.
following death of, 117n14
on army in Utah, 292n11, 323
Young as successor to, 5–6
death of, 479
Young’s conversion to
Drummond, efforts to discredit, 219
Mormonism and, 5
in Europe and Middle East, 484n7
Smith, Joseph F., 418
failure to visit Kane as Trustee-in-
Smith, Truman, 80
Trust, 482, 484–485
Smith, William (brother of
greetings between Kane and, 163,
Joseph), 79, 85
166, 232
Smoot, Abraham O., 227, 408
on John B. Floyd, 319n13
Snow, Erastus, 52, 63n5, 65, 219,
on Judge Sinclair, 316n1
279n14, 366, 367, 503, 504
judges and army, Mormon fears
Snow, Lorenzo, 44n5, 65, 279n14
of collusion between, 325
Snow, Zerubbabel, 92, 161n12, 339n9
Mexican-American War,
Social Hall, Salt Lake City, 346
commissioning of Mormon troops
South Carolina, nullification crisis
for, 20
involving (1832–1833), 96n20
538
Index
Southern Literary Messenger, 82–83
population and ratio of
Southern Pacific Railroad, 466
representation, 100, 192, 194
Southern Utah expedition and
prior to establishment of Utah as
expansion through central
territory, 67, 68–72, 79–80, 83–84
and southern Utah, 132–137
Utah War and, 272, 273
Spencer, Orson, 41
Young’s 1854 inquiry regarding, 159
Spencer, William Robert, 159n7
Stenhouse, Fanny, 490n6
spies and spying, 17, 128, 208, 251, 313,
Stenhouse, Thomas B. H., 272, 274n13,
363, 428, 441
287, 373n14, 383, 387–388
spirit world between death and final
Steptoe, Edward Jenner, 178–180,
judgment, 386
181n13, 190
Sprague, Samuel Lindsay, 129
Stevens, Thaddeus, 404n11
St. George, Utah
Stiles [Styles], George P., 176–177, 204,
Kane visit of 1872–1873 to, 453, 457,
212n1, 314n19, 319n11
459, 508
Stoddard, Judson L., 227, 303
temple site and temple, dedication
Stout, Hosea, 17, 250, 314n19, 429, 430,
of, 441, 508
431, 440, 441
Young wintering in, 404n12
Strang, James J., 117
St. Louis Democrat, 224
Stringham, George, 246, 248
St. Louis, Mo., 16, 32, 48n18, 58n7, 60,
sugar mills, 343
228, 284, 311, 332n9, 494
Sumner, Charles, 53, 82, 398n7
St. Louis Republican, 283–284
Supreme Court, U.S., 283n1, 422, 431
Staines, William C., 310, 348n14, 438,
Swedish artisans in Kane, PA, 494
451, 511
Stansbury Bridger Pass, 156
tariffs
Stansbury, Howard, 134n7
protective, 396–397, 398, 402, 404
statehood for Utah. See also
Walker Tariff of 1846, 99–100
constitutional conventions in Utah
Taylor, George A
., 221
application of 1856, decision not to
Taylor, John
submit, 190–197, 200–201
on demise of Union, 207n38
Cannon and, 272, 316–321, 370, 381,
Drummond, efforts to discredit, 219
445n24, 450, 493n13
European mission of, 65
Civil War and, 369–370, 381
greetings between Kane and, 232
Deseret, provisional state of, 11,
on Indians, 278
65n3, 70–72, 79–80, 82–84, 196,
Kane, Elizabeth, on, 166n5
369, 402
on Kane’s efforts to influence
Enabling Act, Young’s hope for, 320
Buchanan, 217
Fifteenth Amendment and, 396–398,
Mexican-American War, commissioning
402–404
of Mormon troops for, 20
Hooper and, 369–370, 381, 400, 402
Mexico project and, 503–505
plural marriage issue and, 83–84,
opposition of territorial officials
445–446, 450n13
and, 209
Index
539
peace conference, participation
right to overturn acts of, 209n43
in, 279n14
slavery recognized by, 98n24
proposed as associate judge for Utah
Southern Utah expedition, 132
territory, 68
Utah War and, 205, 216, 234–235
on rumors of Mormon
territorial Mormon goals. See political
conspiracy, 203
and territorial Mormon goals
statehood application and, 190, 191,
territorial officials. See also specific
192, 194, 196, 199, 200
officials by name
as successor to Young, 503, 509
appointment of, 91–106, 108–111,
in territorial legislature, 346
160–161, 171, 201
Utah War, Kane’s negotiations with
collusion between army and federal
Mormons during, 241
judges, Mormon fear
Yates case and, 428–429, 440, 445
of, 322–330, 333
Young complaining about territorial
Mormon goal of appointment
officials to, 204
of Mormons as, 91–106, 171
Taylor, Zachary
opposition between Mormons and,
anti-Mormonism of, 72
123–131, 138–144, 201–214, 216–217,
death of, 91, 96
219–221, 382–383, 421–422, 442
declared to be in hell, 124
post-Utah War problems with,
election to presidency, 75–76
295–296, 302, 307, 309–321, 341
statehood, Mormon quest for, 70,
proposed legislation giving territories
71–72, 92n5
right to choose, 316, 319
telegraph, in Utah, 160, 375, 422, 424
Territorial Suffrage Act (1867), 402
Temple Square, Salt Lake City, 278,
Texas and Pacific Railroad, 467n9,
479, 509
487, 488n14
Tennessee statehood, 70
Texas statehood, 70, 83
territorial culture of violence, 228
theocracy/theodemocracy, Mormon, 10,
territorial legislative assembly
13, 83, 174n13, 199, 224, 433n13
annual gubernatorial message to,
Thompson, Jacob, 216–217
234–235
Tilden, Samuel, 494n19
“Deseret” still used by, 196n23
Timpanogas Indians, theft of animals
expenses designated for, 124
by, 202
May pardon and, 161n13
Tin Tuts [Piututs] (Ute subchief), 312n14
ninth annual session, opening
Tintic Indian War, 202
of, 346–347
tithepayer release, 475, 478
officials, proposed legislation
Trader’s Point (Point aux Poules), 29, 32
granting right to appoint, 316, 319
transcontinental/Pacific railroad,
petitions and memorials to Congress,
98–99, 155, 157–163, 164, 165, 167,
160n11, 205, 315, 321
169, 176, 217, 397, 401n7, 426, 453
probate court authority granted by,
Trist, Nicholas P., 77
202, 349n18, 350
The Truth of the Mormons (Grant and
on railroads, 176
Kane pamphlet, May 1852), 142
540
Index
tuberculosis/consumption, 3, 4, 51
evacuation of northern areas during
Tullidge, Edward, 430
Utah War, 250–251, 259, 266–267,
Turkelson, “Father,” 277
279n15, 280
Turkelson, Jens, 277
federally appointed councilors or
Twede, Christian, 422
commissioners, proposals to run
Twelve Mormon Homes (Elizabeth Kane),
Utah by, 357n2, 477
13, 459
invitations to Kane to visit, 49–50,
89, 149, 179, 181, 182, 188, 226, 368,
Underwood, John W. H., 161n12
376, 386, 400, 426, 448, 451, 453
Union Pacific Railroad, 405–409, 418,
Kane’s efforts to obtain governorship
425–426, 509
of, 392–395
United States Gazette, 39
Kane’s refusal of governorship of, 92,
The United States Grinnell Expedition
142, 181
in Search of Sir John Franklin
natural resources, exploitation of, 132,
(Elisha Kane, 1854), 165, 168,
136, 214, 422–423, 450–451
173–174
non-Mormon settlers in, 309–315,
University of Pennsylvania Medical
425–426
School, 73
as political and territorial Mormon
U.S. army. See army, U.S.
goal, 26, 43, 56–59, 67–70,
U.S. mail. See mail
79–80, 83–84
Utah Central Railroad Company,
population and ratio of
405–409, 410, 412, 418, 423n18,
representation in, 100, 192, 194
424, 469, 476n11
reappointment/retention of Young as
Utah Expedition. See army, U.S.
governor, 171–173, 178–179, 181n13,
Utah Northern Railroad, 451n18
182, 206n37, 216
Utah penitentiary, 327n24
records of, 306–308
Utah Southern Railroad, 466,
replacement of Young as governor,
468, 476n11
180, 219–220
Utah territory. See also congressional
return of Mormons to northern areas,
delegates for Utah; statehood
following Utah War, 280, 299, 301
for Utah; territorial legislative
scouting of Great Salt Lake Valley for
assembly; territorial officials
settlement site, 43
borders of, 84, 363–365
slavery in, 98n24, 195–196
census of 1850 in, 100n33, 124,
southern Utah expedition and
126, 140
expansion through central and
combined California-Utah state
southern Utah, 132–137
proposal, 71–72, 92n5
Steptoe expedition in, 178–180, 181n13, 190
Compromise of 1850 and
telegraph in, 160, 375, 422, 424
establishment of, 83–84
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br /> violence, culture of, 228
decision to make mass migration
visit of Thomas and Elizabeth Kane
to, 63n5
(1872-1873), 453–461
Index
541
Young as governor of, 11–12, 68, 69,
refusal of reimbursement from
70, 91–93, 112–122, 142, 180, 205,
government and Mormons by
206–207
Kane, 263–265
Utah War
removal of army from Utah ending,
aftermath of, 290–298
345, 352–353, 354, 367, 370–371, 373
army allowed into Utah, 276,
replacement of territorial officials,
278–281
negotiation of, 267
arrangements of Kane to go to Utah
replacement of Young as governor,
as negotiator in, 233–238
180, 219–220
as “contractor’s war,” 269
statehood efforts and, 272, 273
Cumming’s travel with Kane to Salt
supplies, Mormon offer of, 245–248
Lake City without army escort,
travel of Kane to Utah, 237–240
254–259
troops dispatched with replacement
double narrative of Kane regarding,
governor, 219–220, 221, 229n8
249–250
truce between Cumming and
end of hostilities negotiated by
Young, 256
Kane, 9, 12
Yates case and, 428–429
evacuations during, 250–251, 259,
Young’s annual gubernatorial address
266–267, 279n15, 280
and, 234–235
fears of Mormons regarding army
Ute Indians
and government intentions,
fed by Mormons, 278
245, 274
incidents of 1858 involving, 312n14
federal government, Kane’s
Mormon clashes with, 162, 167–168,
negotiations with, 266–270
169–170
federal government, peace
commissioners from, 271–275,
Valley Tan, 309, 311, 321, 347–348
276, 278–281, 291–292
Van Dyke, James C., 234–236
firing upon Mormon courier,
Van Vliet, Stewart, 228–229, 232, 299,
249–253
301n8, 374, 385
Fort Bridger, burning of, 233, 271
Vancouver’s Island, Mormon
Indians and, 228, 276–278,
negotiations with British over, 17, 25
281–282
“Verastus” letter attacking Kane, 220
initial meeting of Kane with
violence, territorial culture of, 228
Mormons, 241–244
martial law in, 233, 245
Walkara [Walker] (Ute Chief) and
massacres and violence in, 228, 256
Walker War, 162n17, 167–168,
preparations for, 227–232
169–170
presidential pardon for Mormons in,
Walker Tariff of 1846, 99–100
271, 327n20
Walpole, Sir Robert, 100
prisoners, Young on handling
Washington governorship, Kane’s
of, 429n10