"Some Savage Tribe": Race, Legal Violence, and the Mormon War of 1838

Scholarship

PUBLISHER

Journal of Mormon History

DATE

2014

Thomas Frampton

Thomas Frampton, "Some Savage Tribe": Race, Legal Violence, and the Mormon War of 1838, 40 Journal of Mormon History 175 (2014).

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