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Mormonism's last colonizer : the life and times of William H. Smart /

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"By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes....

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Main Author: Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-2018
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Smart, William H. > (William Henry), > 1862-1937.
Smart, William Henry.
Mormons > Utah > Biography.
Utah > History.
Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937.
Religion.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
RELIGION > Christianity > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up in Franklin
  • Years of trial and torment
  • An aborted mission
  • A repentant sinner finds himself
  • Putting a shoulder to the wheel
  • On-the-job training in Heber Valley
  • Making Indian land Mormon country
  • The Vernal years
  • Civilizing the reservation lands
  • The fourth-and final-stake presidency
  • Struggle and failure in Leota
  • Hard times
  • The final years.