Maxwell's portrait of General Maxwell is a hard sell.
For Mormon apologists and others viewing federal appointees with blanket distaste, Dr. John Gary Maxwell, M.D., has crafted the biography of a man to whom he is not related but whose story he finds key in understanding Utah's violent, tortuous territorial passage to statehood. Author Biography ->John Gary Maxwell-> is retired as a surgeon and is Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the schools of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His biography reveals this period through the eyes of a soldier and civil servant who embodied federal authority in Utah during its turbulent post-Civil War years. Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake recognizes Maxwell as both a bona fide Civil War hero and an unappreciated shaper of Utah history. Lee was tried for the massacre of 120 Arkansas emigrants at Mountain Meadows. And as marshal, he was the first to properly conduct a federal trial in the Utah Territory, when John D. In the courts, in election outcomes, and in the legislature, Maxwell fought the Mormons' affirmation that God's law was superior to federal law. In his subsequent service, Maxwell waged a different war as he battled the Mormon church's leadership over ownership of land, water, and timber. With the onset of the Civil War, Maxwell volunteered for the First Michigan Cavalry and fought in most of the war's major battles in Virginia and at Gettysburg. history from the point of view of this young, non-Mormon who lived through it. John Gary Maxwell's biography of General Maxwell (no relation) both celebrates an unsung war hero and presents the history of the longest episode of civil disobedience in U.S. marshal-with bringing the Mormons into compliance with federal law. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and charged-first as Register of Land, then as U.S. official who battled civil disobedience in Utah FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Following distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered an arm useless, General George R.
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