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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-2018.

formats through the Utah State Universi, This book is freely available in digital, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937.

Smart, William H.

Latter Day Saints--Utah--Biography.

Latter Day Saints.

Utah--History.

Utah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : digital, PDF file(Ss).

Place of Publication:

Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2008.

Logan Utah State University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

William B. Smart, a descendant of William H. Smart, is the coeditor, with Donna T. Smart, of Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 ; and, with Terry Tempest Williams, of New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community.

Summary:

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 remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom. Included with the biography is a searchable CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural isolation into twentieth-century national integration.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9786612822230

9781282822238

1282822233

9780874217230

0874217237

OCLC:

646069067