Utah's Black Hawk War
- ISBN-10
- 087480583X
- ISBN-13
- 9780874805833
- Category
- History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Author
- John Alton Peterson
Description
This unprecedented volume provides the first comprehensive account of the "secret" war between a band led by Ute tribal leader Black Hawk and the Mormons' Nauvoo Legion over control of land and other natural resources in the Utah territory.
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