A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE MORMON BATTALION IN THE MEXICAN WAR. 1846-1847.

by Sargent Daniel Tyler. 1881 by Daniel Tyler

$2,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

N.p. Salt Lake City , 1882? 22.5x14.5 cm octavo , pp. 1-2 i-iii iv-viii 9-10 11-376, publisher's decorated black cloth stamped in gold and blind, all edges speckled black, marbled endpapers. First edition, first printing. Formed in July 1846 to aid the U.S. in securing California and to provide financial support for Latter-day Saint pioneers migrating west after being driven from Illinois, the Mormon Battalion

• Printing: first

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