REMINISCENCES OF EARLY UTAH

Blue-green hard cover. Cover is rubbed and edge worn. Ex-library; Black and white photos throughout including Brigham Young, John D. Lee, Bill Hickman, Orrin Porter Rockwell, and more. In late 1866, when Salt Lake City attorney Robert Baskin looked down at the mutilated body of a client, he resolved he would do all in his power to increase federal authority in Utah to ensure that perpetrators of such crimes would not go unpunished. He became the Assistant U. S. Attorney, Salt Lake City mayor, and a Utah Supreme Court justice. Through all this, he was seen as a thorn in the side of the Utah establishment. Even so, readers should appreciate his measured tone and lawyerly objectivity, as well as his graceful prose, indicative of a Harvard education, and his solid documentation intended to convince skeptics.; 6" x 9"; 252 pages.