Sam Brannan and the California Mormons (1943) ~ by Paul Bailey, with a Foreword by Dr. John A. Widtsoe

Sam Brannan and the California Mormons

By Paul Bailey

Foreword by Dr. John A. Widtsoe

Published: 1943

Fair condition hardcover with a fair only dust jacket with an off-white spine.  The dust jacket has large pieces torn off, tears, creases, stains, writing and marks in pencil.  Some pages have stains.  The front flyleaf has writing in pen and pencil.

Sam Brannan and the California Mormons by Paul Bailey is a historical biography, first published in 1943 with a foreword by John A. Widtsoe, that tells the story of Samuel Brannan (1819–1889) and the role he and other Latter-day Saints played in early California history. The book chronicles Brannan’s leadership of the Mormon pioneer group that sailed aboard the Brooklyn to California in 1846, the establishment of Mormon settlements in the region, Brannan’s founding of the California Star newspaper in San Francisco, and the “full impact of the Mormon influence on California’s history,” including the early days of the Gold Rush and the complex interactions between Church members and broader society in mid-19th-century California.

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