Research Catalog

Title

Hosea Stout : lawman, legislator, Mormon defender / Stephen L. Prince.

Author

Prince, Stephen L.,

Publication

• Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xi, 379 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Police chief, military officer, city attorney, legislator, and US Attorney, Hosea Stout influenced many of the major civil and political events of LDS and Utah history. He was accused in connection with several deaths and arrested on conspiracy charges in the murder of Richard Yates"--

Subjects

• Peace officers
• Legislators
• Mormon Church
• Utah
• Mormon pioneers
• Mormons
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Legislators > Utah > Biography
• Mormon Church > History > 19th century
• Biography
• History
• Utah > History > 19th century
• Stout, Hosea, 1810-1889
• Mormon pioneers > Utah > Biography
• Frontier and pioneer life > Utah
• Mormons > Utah > Biography
• Peace officers > Illinois > Nauvoo > Biography
• Nauvoo (Ill.) > History > 19th century
• 1800-1899
• Illinois > Nauvoo

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-368) and index.

Contents

Shaker education -- Reunion and abandonment -- Quakers and Methodists -- Introduction to Mormonism -- Fight and flight -- Refuge in Illinois -- Rising through the ranks -- Policing Nauvoo -- The trek across Iowa -- Winter quarters -- The pinnacle of violence -- Crossing the plains -- Attorney and legislator -- Mission to China -- Lawyer and legislator -- Reformation and winds of war -- Resisting the feds -- The attorney of the Mormon Church -- The Cotton Mission -- Last hurrah -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9781607324768
• 1607324768
• 9781607324775 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015033645

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library