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Life in Utah;
1870. With a full and authentic history of polygamy and the Mormon sect from its origin to the present time. Beadle, author and editor of the Salt Lake Reporter, was unfriendly to the Mormon Church, a passion that becomes evident in his writings, including this volume. History from the Founding of Nauvoo till 1843; Mormon Difficulties and Death of the Prophet; Two Years of Strife-Exodus from Illinois; From the Nauvoo Exodus to the Mormon War in Utah; The Bloody Period; Gentiles in Utah; First Views in Utah; Two Weeks in Salt Lake City; Trip to Bear River and Return; The Conference and Its Results; Analysis of Mormon Society; Analysis of Mormon Theology; Theoretical Polygamy-Its History; Practical Polygamy; The Mormon Theocracy; Recusant Sects of Mormons; Geographical Features; Material Resources of Utah; Mormon Mysteries-Their Origin; Present Condition and Prospects; and Redeeming Agencies. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
580 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1870
About the author
John Hanson Beadle
16 books1 follower 1840-1897
From the linked website: BEADLE, John Hanson, journalist and author, was born in Liberty township, Parke County, Indiana, Mar. 14, 1840, son of James Ward and Elizabeth (Bright) Beadle. As a youth of twenty-one he enlisted in the 31st Indiana infantry for the Civil War, serving as a private until 1862, when he was discharged for disability. He then entered the State University of Michigan, where he studied law in addition to his regular subjects, and was graduated in 1867. He was admitted to the bar, but afer practicing in Evansville, Indiana for one year, abandoned that profession for the career of a journalist. His first newspaper work was done for the Cincinnnati Commercial, following which he spent eight years in the far West, the first year as editor of the Salt Lake Reporter. His Life in Utah, Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them, and The Undeveloped West are the results of his experiences in the western states. In the latter years of his life he wrote editorials and historical and political articles for the American Press Association. Subsequently he made an extended tour of Canada and Nova Scotia and in 1890, through Europe. Out of this latter experience came A Hoosier Abroad. He was married Dec. 25, 1872, to Jennie, daughter of James Cole, of Evansville, Indiana, and had five children: Helen Marjorie; James Ward; Bessie Cole; Mary Eliza; and John Bookwalter Beadle. He died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 1897.
(National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, XXVII - 1922)
From the linked website: BEADLE, John Hanson, journalist and author, was born in Liberty township, Parke County, Indiana, Mar. 14, 1840, son of James Ward and Elizabeth (Bright) Beadle. As a youth of twenty-one he enlisted in the 31st Indiana infantry for the Civil War, serving as a private until 1862, when he was discharged for disability. He then entered the State University of Michigan, where he studied law in addition to his regular subjects, and was graduated in 1867. He was admitted to the bar, but afer practicing in Evansville, Indiana for one year, abandoned that profession for the career of a journalist. His first newspaper work was done for the Cincinnnati Commercial, following which he spent eight years in the far West, the first year as editor of the Salt Lake Reporter. His Life in Utah, Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them, and The Undeveloped West are the results of his experiences in the western states. In the latter years of his life he wrote editorials and historical and political articles for the American Press Association. Subsequently he made an extended tour of Canada and Nova Scotia and in 1890, through Europe. Out of this latter experience came A Hoosier Abroad. He was married Dec. 25, 1872, to Jennie, daughter of James Cole, of Evansville, Indiana, and had five children: Helen Marjorie; James Ward; Bessie Cole; Mary Eliza; and John Bookwalter Beadle. He died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 1897.
(National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, XXVII - 1922)
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