THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Ohio, June 29, 1858

• Mormons - Mormonism

The front page includes: "Later from Utah" which notes in part: "...There is a great hope in Utah, as elsewhere, that the war is at an end. The peace part had been armed & was sufficiently strong in time to arrest the march of the Mormon forces against our own last fall...All the northern settlements are evacuated with the exception of a few Mormons left to guard the public property at Salt Lake City..." with more.
Page 2 has: "Southern and Mormon News" noting in part: "...from Gov. Cumming lays much stress upon the importance of the Mormons being induced to return to their homes & employment...There is, says Gov. Cuming, a division in the ranks of the Mormons, all fearing Young, while many hate him, because of the pacific measures with which he is charged..." and more.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: This June 29, 1858 issue of The Norwalk Experiment (Norwalk, Ohio) is a notable mid-19th-century primary source capturing the real-time resolution of the Utah War (1857–1858), a tense standoff between the United States government and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its front page and interior columns detail critical eyewitness and dispatch reports on Brigham Young’s strategic "Move South"—in which over 30,000 settlers abandoned Salt Lake City, leaving behind a ghost town guarded by a small cadre prepared to burn it down if federal troops attacked—alongside Governor Alfred Cumming’s diplomatic efforts to encourage the population to return to their homes and farms. Original local newspapers from the antebellum Midwest covering territorial Mormon dispatches are distinctly rare, as small-town 1850s imprints like The Norwalk Experiment saw modest original print runs, low survival rates through the Civil War era, and are far less frequently preserved in complete four-page condition compared to large metropolitan dailies like the New York Tribune or Chicago Press and Tribune.