{"product_id":"9780874217223","title":"Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Evans Handcart Prize 2009\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Mormon History Assn Best Biography Award 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the biography is a searchable CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural isolation into twentieth-century national integration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Utah State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033300091120,"sku":"9780874217223","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780874217223_p0.jpg?v=1763831283","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780874217223","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}