(MORMONS) Carrington Albert; editor The Deseret News

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(MORMONS.) Carrington, Albert; editor. The Deseret News. Volume VII, Numbers 1-52. Folio, contemporary 1/2 morocco, worn, front cover detached; contemporary manuscript indexing on the rear free endpaper and pastedown. Salt Lake City, 11 March 1857 to 3 March 1858

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complete year's run of the mormon newspaper covering the utah war and the mountain meadows massacre. Besides much news related to the conflict, the newspaper includes serializations of the History of Joseph Smith and the beginning of Brigham Young's autobiography. Issues of The Deseret News are of historical note as they contain much information about the settlement in the region, overland travel and commerce not available elsewhere. Flake 2822; Eberstadt 165:718.