In 1858 a young recruit in the Second Dragoons marched across the plains with the U.s. Army's Sixth Column to help end an alleged rebellion by the Mormons of Utah against the authority of the federal government. A former newspaperman, this young recruit wrote articles that were published in the Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin under the pen name "Utah." The articles reflect his awareness of the temper of the times and his interest in national politics and political aspects of the U.S. Army. Besides writing about the Mormon War, he told Bulletin readers at home about the spectacular scenery of the West, the Indians of the territories, and the daily life of a dragoon. By the time the Sixth Column reached Utah, the "rebellion" among the Mormons had been resolved, but he continued to write while stationed at Camp Floyd, describing life in camp and expressing his changing feelings about the Mormons as he came to know them. Wounded in an encounter with Indians after three months at Camp Floyd, "Utah" was discharged from the army and made his way south through the arid regions of Arizona to the little town of Los Angeles in Southern California. His comments on political matters in California, Arizona, and Mexico, events in the Southwest, and his gold mining experiences on the Gila River offer readers an exceptionally articulate and perceptive view of events in the mid-nineteenth-century West. "Utah" remains anonymous in all his articles, and the editor can only suggest a speculative conclusion as to who he might have been. But as the reader comes to know "Utah," a surprisingly vivid portrait of an intelligent, learned, and patriotic man emerges, and his insights into army life, war, the government, and incidents in the early West give us a genuinely new perspective on history andsingularlar impression of a truly exceptional man.

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Excerpt from A Glimpse of Utah: Its Resources, Attractions and Natural Wonders Every book - great or small - should have a preface. It is the reader's right to be told in advance for what purpose the book was written, and what he may expect to find along the paths of print if he shall follow them to their end. This book was written to give wider publicity to the phenomenal development now going on in Utah; to tell the wonderful story of the achievements of a people who, in little more than half a century, wrought out of a wilderness a populous and productive state; and to stimulate, so far as a book may, inquiry by capitalists and homeseekers about the opportunities awaiting them on the other side of the range. As the title suggests, the book will give only a glimpse - a mere outline - of the many interesting and curious things, God - and man-made, to be seen in Utah. To attempt more would be to fill volumes and then leave the record but half written. The reader will be shown among the print many scenes of grandeur and beauty, and will be told just enough about the mining, smelting, manufacturing, agricultural, horticultural, stock-growing and other interests; the social and educational advantages; the scenic, bathing and other attractions, the climate, and enough about the enterprise and industry of the people who live and prosper in Utah, to give him a good general idea of the state. There will be a little about the Mormons, just now somewhat misunderstood and misjudged, and something about the Uintah Reservation recently opened to settlement, and about the little railroad that runs into it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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