History 4130 Spring 2002
Weeks 7-8
March 11: class will meet in Library 138
March 18: Judith Freeman will be reading from her novel about the Mountain Meadows massacre Red Water at public library in Huntsville, 7:00 pm.
Gene Sessions will be discussing the Lee letter "find" at Lair, 7:30 pm.
readings: Alexander, chapters 3-5
"No Promised Land" from Us and Them
Internet resources:
Utah--a Known Place
A short description of the Escalante-Dominguez expedition, including a small map is from Desert USA: http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/sep/papr/escalante.html
From the New Mexico History Index, a short description of the Taos trappers: http://www.cia-g.com/~rockets//dNMhist.taos.htm
A short biography of Jim Bridger by a student in an American Studies class: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/jimbrid.html
A short biography of Peter Skeen Ogden: http://royal.okanagan.bc.ca/resource/histdocs/hbc/ogdenbio.html
From the Kansas City Museum, a short description of Fremont, including a small map of his routes: http://www.kcmuseum.com/explor09.html
From the Encyclopedia Britanica, a short biography of Fremont: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/4/0,5716,35994+1+35334,00.html
Mormonism and the American Experience
From the National Endowment for the Humanities Teacher Serve, "Mormonism and the American Experience": http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nmormon.htm
this is part of a larger site on the Second Great Awakening: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nevanrev.htm
The Library of Congress has a large site with illustrations on "Religion and the New Republic." Mormonism is a featured religion: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
From the University of Virginia, a Master's thesis on the Second Great Awakening: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA95/finseth/thesis.html
From LDS-Mormon.com is a short description of the Nauvoo Expositor, the destruction of which precipitated the arrest of Joseph Smith: http://www.lds-mormon.com/06.shtml
From All About Mormons, a short article about the Nauvoo Legion: http://a-a-mormons.tripod.com/daily/history/1831_1844/nauvoo_legion_eom.htm
From the Yale Teachers Institute is material on utopian communities, including Mormon: http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1987/2/87.02.06.x.html
Schismatic Groups--breaking off from Mormonism: http://a-a-mormons.tripod.com/response/general/schismatic_eom.htm
The Mexican War
A rich site on the Mexican War, 1846-1848: http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar.htm
A rich site on the Mexican War based on an exhibit, includes study questions: http://www.humanities-interactive.org/Invasionyanqui/
A map of the Mexican Cession: http://www.bchm.org/wrr/war/p4c.html
The Mormon Exodus
Frontier Trails include links to sites for Santa Fe Trail and Mormon Trail: http://www.americanwest.com/trails/
Heritage Gateways, an official sesquicentennial K-12 education project sponsored by Utah State Office of Education, the BYU-Public School Partnership and UtahLINK a service of the Utah Education Network, is a rich site about the Mormon Trail: http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/index.hts
An excellent interactive map of the Mormon Trail: http://www.evanstonwy.com/mormontrail/experience/trailmaps.html
From BYU Magazine a 1997 article on the "Continuing Significance of the Mormon Trail": http://advance.byu.edu/bym/1997/97fall/mormontrail.html
The Mormon Battalion
The Mormon Battalion Visitors' Center in San Diego, CA: http://ldssocal.org/vc/mbvc.htm
A short article with map from Desert USA: http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/oct/papr/mormbat.html
Continuing federal presence in Utah
A short biography of John W. Gunnison: http://www.greenriver-utah.com/jwgunnison.shtml
Brief summary of Gunnison Massacre: http://www.millardcounty.com/massacre.html
A brief biography of Howard Stansbury is from the Utah History Encyclopedia: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/s/STANSBURY,HOWARD.html
The 1855 Stansbury report is available on-line: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJA3655