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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
they needed an independent field for expansion. Their new leader, Brigham Young, discovered it in the Salt Lake Valley described glowingly in Fremont's report. Brigham thought of founding a separate state in this Mexican territory, but the events of the Mexican war moved so rapidly that, ever while he planned, the valley fell under American rule. The Mormons went forward nevertheless and arrived on the shore of the American Dead Sea in August, 1847. Brigham complained that the valley was not as represented by Fremont—that it was really a desert. Fremont had seen on the Rio Grande what irrigation can do, and the Mormons resorted to it with an agriculturut-throats to discourage Gentiles from settling among them, and Bill Hickman, when he became an apostate, claimed to have been the leader of it. He issued a book, Brigham's destroying angel being the life confession and startling Disclosures of the notorious Bill Hickman written by himself with explanatory notes by J. H. Beadle (18
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ss, 138 Breen, Patrick, 146 Breitmann's going to Church, 24 Breitmann in a Balloon, 24 Breitmann in Maryland, 24 Brevoort, J. C., 185, 186 Brewerton, George D., 150 Bridges, Robert, 555 Bridgman, Dr., 144 Brief examination of Lord Sheffield's observations on the Commerce of the United States, 430 Brief history of the English language, 462 Brief narrative (Zenger trial), 535 Briefwechsel (Schlozer), 577 Briggs, C. A., 203-4, 205, 206, 207 Briggs, C. F., 313 Brigham's destroying angel, 143 Bright, James Wilson, 459, 480 n. Brighton, 275 Brinsley, George, 183 Brinton, Daniel, 619, 620 Brisbane, Albert, 437 Brisk young lover, a, 510 Bristed, John, 432 Broadhurst, George, 289, 293 Brodhead, J. R., 173, 175, 179 Brooks, A. H., 167 Brooks, Phillips, 218-225 Brotherhead, W., 545 n. Brother Jonathan, 547 Brothers, Thos., 437 Brougham, John, 267, 268 Brown, A. J., 165 Brown, Alice, 291, 294 Brown, C. B., 68, 542, 546, 548