LIFE IN UTAH: or, the Mysteries And Crimes Of Mormonism. Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints ...
by BEADLE, J. H., John H
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Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, ( 1871 ). Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good plus. 8vo, 608 pages, [viii] publisher's ads, original green embossed cloth, with some silverfish tracks on the spine and rear cover, corners worn. SURPRISINGLY SCARCE VARIANT. Not in Graff or Soliday ( Eberstadt had the 1870 edition, but it is incorrectly cited at catalog ll4:456, but it is actually 114:546].
The new Second Part begins at p. 541. "No apology is necessary for presenting these additional chapters, bringing the history of Utah down to the preent time. The affairs of that Territory, since the openeing of the year 1870 have been of the most absorbing interest, and must continue for some time to attract the attention of the country. ... It is believed that the chapter on mines will be of special interest.... " With a new wood engraving of Salt Lake City. [ Flake/Draper 344]. Beadle left Indiana and lived for years in the West, especially as Editor of the "Salt Lake Reporter". Both a lawyer and a journalist, Beadle's anti-Mormon columns and books were a vertiable bastinado of hyperbole, designed to quash any incipient admiration for Mormon industry, sobriety, and brotherly love - Leonard Arrington.": Illustrated with 38 woodcuts.
The new Second Part begins at p. 541. "No apology is necessary for presenting these additional chapters, bringing the history of Utah down to the preent time. The affairs of that Territory, since the openeing of the year 1870 have been of the most absorbing interest, and must continue for some time to attract the attention of the country. ... It is believed that the chapter on mines will be of special interest.... " With a new wood engraving of Salt Lake City. [ Flake/Draper 344]. Beadle left Indiana and lived for years in the West, especially as Editor of the "Salt Lake Reporter". Both a lawyer and a journalist, Beadle's anti-Mormon columns and books were a vertiable bastinado of hyperbole, designed to quash any incipient admiration for Mormon industry, sobriety, and brotherly love - Leonard Arrington.": Illustrated with 38 woodcuts.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- 230304
- Title
- LIFE IN UTAH
- Author
- BEADLE, J. H., John H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Enlarged Edition
- Publisher
- National Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- ( 1871 )
- Keywords
- mormonism, nauvoo, Illinois, joseph smith, utah, latter-day saints, salt lake city, anti-Mormon, polygamy, mountain meadows massacre, mines, mining,
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- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY);
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