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Much own the Mormon War...   Fight between Indians...
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Much own the Mormon War... Fight between Indians...

Item # 700557 ·
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 1857  Page 3 has over half a column taken up with: "Important From Utah" which has the largest news on the Utah War, the U.S. troops against the Mormons of Utah. A few bits include: "...reports of the hostile disposition of the Mormons towards the United States forces which have been dispatched to their Territory..." and: "...that the Mormons had burnt three government trains (75 wagons) near Green River..." and much, much more.
This is followed by: "Battle Between the Indians of the Gila and Colorado Rivers". And then: "Indictment For Harboring Slaves" with various details. 
Four pages, large folio size, slightly irregular at the spine from disbinding, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Background: This specific issue of the Daily National Intelligencer (November 14, 1857) is a exceptionally valuable primary source that captures three distinct fronts of mid-19th-century American conflict on a single page. Its major historical highlight is the detailed report on the "Utah War," which documents Lot Smith’s pivotal October 1857 guerrilla raid where Mormon militia burned 75 U.S. Army supply wagons near the Green River—a dramatic strike that crippled Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston’s expeditionary force and forced federal troops into a grueling winter encampment at Fort Bridger. Compounding its historical significance, the page also details the Battle of Pima Beutt, one of the largest inter-tribal battles in Southwestern history, fought between a Quechan-Mojave coalition and the Maricopa-Pima alliance along the Gila River. Paired with legal coverage of slave-harboring indictments printed in the tense wake of the Dred Scott decision, this four-page issue offers a rare, highly concentrated contemporary snapshot of the federal government simultaneously struggling with Mormon defiance, Native American sovereignty, and the explosive legal battles over the Fugitive Slave Act.

Item from last month's catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026

Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$53
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.