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Show amuner LOCAL Sunday, July 12, 1992 3¢ Utah War’s influence reflected in new book ee heavily ly and of the ill not Mean- hoping 1e fish- ited to Friday - fundnight. iblican | he alwhethr both ah Reequest who misspelled it. “] am not a Mormon,” he would Say with mock severity, “and nei- ther are my children, Anti and Non.” Oneof those students, Gene A. Sessions, tells the story with affection and with irony, knowing that few non-Mormon scholars had a deeper appreciation of the pioneer culture that settled the Great Basin than his late colleague. When Moormon died of lymphoma in 1980 at age 49, he left nearly a dozen drafts of a manuscript he had struggled 18 years to complete. Sessions and fellow Weber State University historian Jerome Bernstein, with Moorman’s blessing, vowed to see it published posthumously Bernstein died in 1990. Sessions wrote the final draft last summer The result is “Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War,” a vivid account ofthe tense occupation of the Utah Territory from 1858 to 1861 by a federal army under General Albert Sidney Johnston. Moorman and other historians have long held that the coming of Johnston’s 3,000-man army, more than the Gold Rush before and the transcontinental railroad later, spelled doom for the Mormon dream of a theocratic utopia and pushed the territory toward the _ Moorman, who had a penchant for purple prose, had given the manuscript a “novelish” cast and believed, somewhat naively, it could find a market with a major New York publishing house. American mainstream. “With one broad sweep ofits military fist, the federal government ended forever the Saints’ dream of implanting a millennial society on the fringe of the frontier,” Moorman wrote. Newly published by the University of Utah Press as part ofits Utah Centennial Series, the 332page volume is based solely on Moorman’s research, ideas and conclusions. But it differs dramati- cally in style to what heleft. “He had redone it and redoneit and it really was in a rather frightful state when I got it,” said Sessions, who obtained his doctorate at Florida State and worked for the Mormon Church historian’s office in the 1970s before Moorman urged him to come to WeberState. Sessions said he isn’t sure Moorman would have approved of everything he did with the book. “But I'd just have to tell him, ‘Well look, Don, it was either this or your booksits in a cardboard box some place.” So I’ve taken that chance with him.” The narrative, shorn of Moorman’s gingerbread style but none of its drama, portrays a “war” in which no shots were fired but which set Utah firmly, if reluctantly, on a course toward eventual statehood in [896. ver cle, the § ELEBRATING SECU : about _ when red to RbogeSSRISSISSIES d SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With a forbidding scowl, Donald R. Moorman used to scrawl his surname across the blackboard and tell his newhistory students at Weber State he would flunk anyone -LESBORERERRBRRCRSBRS CT eo Standard-Examiner id lost | iffered © F SERVICE in the ~ ie Uni- © ——— ners i hundred years ago, Bigham CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS! EGBERT VANBREE.. $5000 IN FURNITURE MICHAEL LONG... 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