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 their own far-reaching ambitions and fully
intended to establish an independent nation--the Kingdom of God--in
the West.
Long overshadowed by the Civil War, the tragic story of this
conflict involved a tense and protracted clash pitting Brigham
Young's Nauvoo Legion against Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and
the U.S. Army's Utah Expedition. In the end, the conflict between
the two armies saw no pitched battles, but in the authors' view,
Buchanan's decision to order troops to Utah, his so-called blunder,
eventually proved decisive and beneficial for both Mormons and the
American republic.
A rich exploration of events and forces that presaged the Civil
War, "The Mormon Rebellion "broadens our understanding of both
antebellum America and Utah's frontier theocracy and offers a
challenging reinterpretation of a controversial chapter in Mormon
annals.
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