Mormonism's last colonizer : : the life and times of William H. Smart / / William B. Smart.
Winner of the Evans Handcart Prize 2009. Winner of the Mormon History Assn Best Biography Award 2009. 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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 pages) :; digital, PDF file(Ss). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.