On the Overland Trails with William Clark

A Teamster's Utah War, 1857–1858

William P. MacKinnon, Kenneth L. Alford (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3750-7 (ISBN)

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The Utah War remains an understudied but important moment in western history as the United States wrestled with its political future. There are few primary accounts from this war, but one of the best comes from William Clark, a young teamster hired by Russell, Majors and Waddell, the West’s greatest freighters. Clark’s narrative, “A Trip Across the Plains in 1857,” was not published until 1922 and only then in an obscure journal with little annotation, so for the last hundred years, this work has been a valuable but obscure document.

In On the Overland Trails with William Clark William P. MacKinnon and Kenneth L. Alford have remedied this historiographical oversight by providing material entirely missing from the original printing, including an explanation of the Utah War’s origins and prosecution; maps by which to chart Clark’s travels; illustrations to enliven major players; and annotations to clarify the sometimes arcane people, places, incidents, and issues mentioned. Also included for the first time is an account of the manuscript’s colorful provenance.

William P. MacKinnon is an independent historian and management consultant. He is a retired vice president of General Motors. Kenneth L. Alford is professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University and a retired colonel in the U.S. Army. MacKinnon and Alford are coeditors of Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857–1858-A. G. Browne’s “The Ward of the Three Guardians.”

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Howard R. Lamar
Acknowledgments

Part 1. Understandings
Editors’ Introduction
Editorial Decisions
Background and Context: The Utah War

Part 2. William Clark’s Edited Reminiscences (“A Trip Across the Plains in 1857”)
Section 1. “We Had an Eye on California”: Signing On, Starting Out
Section 2. “I Was Starving with a Train Loaded with Provisions”: Sick unto Death
Section 3. “They Make the Earth Tremble”: Into the Buffalo Range
Section 4. “Consider Yourselves Discharged”: Sunday Confrontation
Section 5. “Grand and Beautiful Scenery”: Wolves along the North Platte
Section 6. “A Sage Brush Country”: Crossing the Continental Divide to Green River
Section 7. “The Boss, Seeing They Had No Show, Surrendered”: Meeting Lot Smith
Section 8. “Into Winter Quarters”: An Agonizing Crawl to Fort Bridger
Section 9. “Saddle Up and Be Quick about It”: Into Captivity with the Latter-day Saints
Section 10. “Difficult for a Man to Escape Their Vengeance”: Life in Salt Lake City
Section 11. “We Started, Badly Scared Inside”: From Salt Lake through Utah’s Southern Settlements
Section 12. “Enough to Make a Man’s Blood Run Cold”: Crossing Mountain Meadows and Beyond
Section 13. “Back to Wisconsin”: The Fate of Sherwood and Tuttle
Appendix A: The Pomeroy and Kingston Story
Appendix B: William and Cora Clark’s Later Years
Appendix C: William Clark’s Obituaries
Appendix D: Status Differences among Teamsters

Part 3. Meaning
Editors’ Epilogue
Editors’ Conclusions

Notes
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2025
Vorwort	Howard R. Lamar
Zusatzinfo	9 photographs, 17 illustrations, 2 maps, 4 appendixes, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-3750-1 / 1496237501
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3750-7 / 9781496237507
Zustand	Neuware