'Mind Your Own Business!' Humor in the Western Standard

23pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 5 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'Defending Zion: George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857.' The Western Standard was printed in San Francisco from February 1856 to the fall of 1857, when, due to the Mormon War, it was summarily discontinued. The articles (upward of a hundred) embrace a most important group of facts and incidents connected with the pioneer West, the plains, Utah and California. Outlawry and depredations in the Carson Valley; the Indians; the Vigilance Committee; the Overland Railroad, etc. The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier', is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core.…