Description

"Mormon Battalion enlistees participated in numerous historic events in the 1846-1849 Far West, from the Mexican War to the discovery of California gold. Norma Baldwin Ricketts tells the full story of this wide-ranging but little-known army unit's complicated and dramatic experiences, restoring the battalion to its central place in the history of the West." (from back cover)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter

1. The Enlistment
2. Fort Leavenworth: Knapsacks and Muskets
3. Santa Fe: Colonel Cooke Assumes Command
4. Pima and Maricopa Indian Villages
5. San Diego: Company B Makes Friends
6. Los Angeles: Building Fort Moore
7. General Kearny's Escort to Fort Leavenworth
8. After Discharge
9. Monterey, San Francisco, and the Brooklyn
10. Sutter's Workmen
11. Journey's End
12. Detached Service
13. Mormon Volunteers

Epilogue
Appendix

1. Analysis of Movement within Mormon Battalion
2. Alphabetical Reconstructed Roster
3. Men Who Reached California
4. Hancock—Los Angeles Company
5. Hancock-Sierra Company
6. Sutter's Workmen
7. Purchase of Sutter's Russian Cannon
8. Military Documents
9. Music and Poetry