Mormonism's Last Colonizer

by Smart, William B.

• ISBN13: 9780874217223
• ISBN10: 0874217229
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-20
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Mormonism's Last Colonizer is an honest examination of an ancestor by his namesake. Included with the biography is a CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, which amounted to some ten thousand written pages-a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural separation into twentieth-century national integration.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. VI
Preface	p. VII
Introduction	p. 1
Growing Up in Franklin	p. 7
Years of Trial and Torment	p. 31
An Aborted Mission	p. 56
A Repentant Sinner Finds Himself	p. 75
Putting a Shoulder to the Wheel	p. 89
On-the-job Training in Heber Valley	p. 117
Making Indian Land Mormon Country	p. 148
The Vernal Years	p. 179
Civilizing the Reservation Lands	p. 208
The Fourth-and Final-Stake Presidency	p. 250
Struggle and Failure in Leota	p. 265
Hard Times	p. 286
The Final Years	p. 305
Epilogue	p. 316
Thomas Smart's Vision	p. 320
Selected Correspondence from William H. Smart Papers	p. 322
Bibliography	p. 334
Index	p. 340
William H. Smart Journals, on CD
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