(WEST UTAH) Issue of the Daily Union Vedette Utahs first da

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Sale 2708 - Lot 207

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(WEST--UTAH.) Issue of the Daily Union Vedette, Utah's first daily newspaper. Volume I, no. 46. 4 pages, 16 x 11½ inches, on one folding sheet; folds, minor wear. Camp Douglas, Utah Territory, 29 February 1864

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This daily newspaper was published at a United States Army base in Utah. Their reputation was anti-Mormon, though we see no overtly hostile content here. News includes a dispatch from Boise: Indian skirmishes and efforts to form a vigilance committee. One column is devoted to Civil War news.

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