Defending Zion: George Q. Cannon and the

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Foreword

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Will Bagley

Preface and Editorial Procedures

17

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Introduction

23

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``A Newspaper Devoted to the Cause of Truth''

29

(26)

Prospectus of the Western Standard

I Had a Load on My Shoulders

``Two Wrongs Never Will Make a Right'': Sam Brannan and the Vigilantes

55

(32)

The Control of Public Opinion May Be in Our Hands

The Most Intense Excitement: Cannon and the Vigilantes

This Deluded People: The Western Standard vs. The Pacific

The Veriest Liar That Ever Trod the Earth

To Shoot and Hang Their Scores and Hundreds

``Hang `Em Up---Like Pirates!'': the Mormons: Saints or Sinners?

87

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The Utah Land of Abominations

The Propagators of Such a Monstrous Evil

Such a Drunken Dog: the Mormon Preacher

Language So Beastly and Degraded: Brigham Young's Profanity

He Speaks from the Heart: Brigham Young's Rhetoric

``The Pusillanimous Railings of an Apostate Mormon'': the Strange Case of Elder Cannon and Mr. Hyde

117

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Tyranny and Wrong, Corruption and Sorrow, Vice and Crime

The Rise, Progress and Corruptions of the Mormon Fanaticism: John Hyde in California

The Sudden Going Out of This Twinkling Star

``The Bandits of the Plains'': Red Indians, White Indians, Lamanites, and Danites

141

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The Fate of the Red Man

To Join with the Indians: White Indians

The Danite Band, or the Avenging Angels

The Mysterious and Bloody Band of ``Danites''

Quite Too Many for the White Indians

Mr. Haws Has Managed to Secure the Confidence of the Indians

Desperate Men, Often Fugitives from Justice

``The Grossest form of Human Depravity'': Polygamy and the Relics of Barbarism

169

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The Approaching Storm & Tempest

Mormon Elders with Their Wives and Concubines

The Coinage of a Poetical Lunatic

The Harems of the Priesthood

A Flagrant Sin against God and Nature

Let Them Wag Their Tongues of Slander

``The Best News from This Place is the Reformation'': the Reality of Rhetoric

209

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To Get the Spirit of Reformation

It May Seem Strange That Reformation Is Needed

Like a Fire in My Bones

To Cut the Throats of Apostates: Blood Atonement

The Mormon Car Is Still Going Ahead

In the Spirit & Favor of God

``The Kingdom That Daniel Saw'': Autocracy, Theocracy, and Theo-Democracy in Deseret

243

(34)

A Kingdom That Will Sway the Sceptre of Power

Young and His Cut-Throat Minions

Our Duty to Crush You Out!

A Filthy and Debasing Immoral Hypocrisy

The Counsel and Commandments of God

Rebellion Has Been Its Creed and Practice

Our Departed Liberty

``The Villainous, Wholesale Calumniator'': Judge Drummond and the Friends of the Court

277

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This Prostitute Sitting on the Bench

The Recent Outrages of the People of Utah

A Picture of Beastly Barbarity

A Peculating Thief and a Foul Calumniator

``The Hoary-Headed Reverend Seducer'': the Assassination of Parley P. Pratt

309

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A Martyr to the Cause of Truth

The Best Act of My Life

This Heaven-daring Deed

``The Mormons Must Be Crushed Out'': War and Rumors of War

333

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To Resist the Forces That May Be Sent by Uncle Sam

A Gibbet Rather than a Bed of Roses

To Find Any Man Competent to Succeed Him

Nothing Remains But an Appeal to Arms

The United States Troops Are Going to Kill Us All

The Devil's Myrmidons

Breathing a Spirit of Defiance

``A Horrible Massacre of Emigrants'': Vengeance at Mountain Meadows

365

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To Be Thus Charged with an Atrocious Crime

Inflict on Them Condign Punishment

They Hate Us Yet They Fear Us

They Were Resolved to Wreak a Terrible Revenge

``Faithfully Warning the People'': Cannon's Parting Shots

391

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Every Indignity and Wrong

To Debate With You the Principles of Mormonism

Until They Take Their Final Sleep

The Best and Most Effective Weapons They Have

Afterword: A Man Who Had Knocked About the World: Cannon After California

411

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Appendix: The Newspapers and Their Editors

427

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Alta California

Daily California American

Daily Evening Bulletin

Daily Herald

Democratic State Journal

Golden Era

Mountain Democrat

The Pacific

Spirit of the Age

Los Angeles Star

Weekly Chronicle

Bibliography

439

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Index

457

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The Editor

464

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