Army of Israel

by Bigler, David L.

• ISBN13: 9780874212945
• ISBN10: 0874212944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	11	(4)
Editorial Procedures	15	(2)
Introduction	17	(14)
``To Conciliate Them'': The Enlistment	31	(42)
``The Rolling of the Mormon Drums'': Council Bluffs to the Arkansas Crossing	73	(34)
``Under the Command of the Devil'': The Cimarron Route to Santa Fe	107	(38)
``Where Waggons Had Never Before Passed'': Cooke's Wagon Road	145	(44)
``Its Protection & Defense'': California Peacekeepers	189	(36)
``Over a Beautiful Country'': Kearny's Life Guards	225	(28)
``A Happier Set of Men'': The Discharge	253	(24)
``The Road to Pueblo'': The Detachments	277	(28)
``We Must Go to Salt Lake'': The Detachments	305	(28)
The Return	333	(48)
``Looks Like Gold'': The Veterans in California	381	(36)
``In Honorable Remembrance'': The Legacy of the Mormon Battalion	417	(40)
Appendix: Names of Pueblo Soldiers And Mississippi Brethren	457	(4)
Bibliography	461	(16)
Index	477