Defending Zion, Volume 5: George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857

by Roger Robin Ekins and Jacob Robin Lawrence

George Q. Cannon was the most able defender of Mormonism in the nineteenth century. By the time he was thirty, Cannon had been a printer's devil, a religious refugee, an 1847 Utah pioneer, a member of the great trek of 1849 across the southern Great Basin to California, a gold miner, a Latter-day Saint missionary to the Hawaiian Islands, and finally, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Western Standard. In an unequal contest, the eloquent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870623214
• ISBN13: 9780870623219
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"