Camp Floyd and the Mormons is a comprehensive analysis of the history of frontier Utah as it ended a decade of isolation and confronted the United States government. The work includes research materials from the LDS Church Archives that are no longer available on subjects ranging from the Mountain Meadows Massacre to the Mormon responses to the presence of the Army in Utah from 1858 through 1861. Reference to the Pony Express, Overland Trail, Ben Ficklin and Russell, Majors & Waddell freighting. Camp Floyd was a Pony Express Station in 1860-61. In pre- Pony Express period - Mountain Meadow Massacre and Utah Expedition. An excellent description of life at the time of the Pony Express, including the Paiute War.
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Utah, Mormons, Russell, Majors & Waddell, Camp Floyd, Utah War, Mormon War, Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah Expedition, Paiute War
