For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

With much regret we had been compelled to turn aside from our journey, and spend the winter among the Mormons, Jotham Goodell recalled in 1852. His intended destination was Oregon's Willamette Valley. Having been compelled to this decision, I resolved to pass the winter as quietly as possible. But his winter with the Mormons was anything but peaceful. He found the Latter-day Saints to be militant in word and deed, especially vis-a-vis the United States, from which they had just escaped. Although he stayed only six months, he was in Salt Lake City in 1849, soon after the pioneers.

Sources documenting a frontier atrocity and its cover-up

In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to show that--contrary to common perception--the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan's "blunder," nor was it a David-and-Goliath tale in which an abused religious minority heroically defied the imperial ambitions of an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue that Mormon leaders had...