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Army Of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives Paperback – August 1, 2000

by David Bigler (Editor), Will Bagley (Editor)

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Giving priority to previously unpublished documents, editors David Bigler and Will Bagley have compiled, introduced, and annotated dozens of firsthand accounts and other primary sources regarding the Mormon Battalion's march and subsequent adventures. These include such perspectives as the journal of teenager William Pace, letters from a few of the women associated with the battalion (some thirty wives accompanied their husbands), and military and government correspondence. These and the many other collected documents provide an expansive portrait and detailed record of a large part of the American West--including portions of what became Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah--and its inhabitants at a crucial juncture in the region's history, the late 1840s.

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492 pages
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English
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Utah State University Press
Publication date

August 1, 2000
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6.13 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

0874212944
ISBN-13

978-0874212945
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David L. Bigler was born in Provo, Utah, and served in the US Navy in WWII and Korean War. He graduated from the University of Utah and holds an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Southern Utah State College. He is the retired director of public affaris for US Steel. Since 1986 he has devoted full time to the study of Utah and western history. He lives with his wife in Roseville, California.

Will Bagley lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children. He attended Brigham Young University and is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He serves as editor of the Arthur H. Clark Co. series Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier. The manuscript of his forthcoming study of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, The Blood of the Prophets, won a first place in the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Contest in 1998.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Utah State University Press; 1st edition (August 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 492 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0874212944
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0874212945
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches

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Gnarly1

A superb effort

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2003

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David Bigler and Will Bagley are two of the nation's leading experts on the history of the Rocky Mountain Mormons.
They have combined to present an extremely readable history of the Mormon Battalion - an army unit that traversed thousands of difficult miles and never fired a shot in anger.
Extremely well researched, ARMY OF ISRAEL is must reading for those interested in the many facets of 19th Century Mormonism.

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Jeannie Shaddy

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Roger D. Launius

In terms of Mormon documentary history, this is one of the best.

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2012

This book is very much in the tradition of the great documentary series of the Arthur H. Clark Co., and presents dozens of firsthand accounts and other primary sources regarding the Mormon Battalion's march and subsequent adventures. All of these are expertly introduced and analyzed to present an expansive portrait and detailed record of a large part of the American West and its inhabitants at a crucial juncture in the region's history. This work won the "Best Documentary History Award" presented by the Mormon History Association.

This work offers excellent grist for what I consider the fundamental questions to be explored in the history of the Mormon Battalion and its place in the history of the U.S. West and Mormonism. Among other questions I would like to see considered the following relating to the unit's myth and memory:
* Why does the Mormon Battalion loom so large in the historical consciousness of present-day Mormons? How did it gain this reverential status?
* What writings, reenactments, public commemorations, etc. structured this conception of the past?
* How has the story of the Mormon Battalion been used by Mormons to help create their unique identity?
* Is the story of Mormon pioneering--and the battalion's role in it--critical to the modern Mormon identity? If so, how and why?
* Is the story of the battalion's military service important to Modern Mormonism? If so, how and why?
* What is the historical consciousness of the battalion's role in military history, and how did it attain that particular position?
These are not necessarily questions to be answered in a documentary history such as this, but the sources offered here provide valuable insights that will help in considering them.

Editors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley are to be commended for producing this excellent work, and the publisher must be recognized for its support in making available these invaluable documentary sources..

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G. J. Graves

this is good history

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2000

From time to time, a historian will write a book, as opposed to an author writing history. And when TWO historians write a book, you get what Bigler and Bagley have created here. The entire series, "Forgotten Kingdom" is dynamite, we are fortunate to have these books available to us.

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