THE NORWALK EXPERIMENT, Ohio, April 6, 1858  

* Uncommon publication

The front page has over a full column headed: "The Mormon War "Letter From Great Salt Lake City--Mormon View of the Impending Struggle--Reliance of the People on Brigham Young--Determination to Fight", offering much detail.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: This April 6, 1858, issue of The Norwalk Experiment offers a rare, contemporaneous glimpse into the height of the Utah War (1857–1858), an armed standoff triggered when President James Buchanan sent federal troops to depose Brigham Young as territorial governor out of fear of a Mormon rebellion. Published at a critical juncture when the U.S. Army was stalled in winter quarters and Brigham Young was actively coordinating a scorched-earth evacuation of Salt Lake City, this specific "Mormon View" column provides an invaluable primary-source window into the fierce defiance, absolute reliance on Young's leadership, and readiness to fight that characterized the LDS community. The historical significance of this report lies in its raw preservation of a national crisis just weeks before it reached its unexpected anti-climax; by June 1858, peace commissioners successfully negotiated a peaceful resolution and pardon, making this Ohio publication a stark testament to the tense psychological atmosphere, media landscape, and deep cultural anxieties that defined mid-nineteenth-century American westward expansion.