PRELIMINARY CHAPTERS ON THE PREVIOUS HISTORY OF HER FOUNDERS, ACCOUNTS

OF EARLY SPANISH AND AMERICAN EXPLORATIONS IN THE ROCKY MOUN-

TAIN REGION, THE ADVENT OF THE MORMON PIONEERS, THE ESTAB-

LISHMENT AND DISSOLUTION OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERN-

MENT OF THE STATE OF DESERET, AND THE SUBSEQUENT

CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

BY ORSON F. WHITNEY.

Illustrated.

" THIS I HOLD TO BE THE CHIEF OFFICE OF HISTORY, TO RESCUE VIRTUOUS ACTIONS FROM THE OBLIVION TO WHICH A WANT OF
RECORDS WOULD CONSIGN THEM; AND THAT MEN SHOULD FEEL A DREAD OF BEING CONSIDERED INFAMOUS IN THE OPINIONS OF POSTERITY, FROM
THEIR DEPRAVED EXPRESSIONS AND BASE ACTIONS. TACITUS.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH:

GEORGE Q. CANNON & SONS CO., PUBLISHERS.
MARCH, 1892.

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