TY - BOOK ID - 7615180 TI - Mormonism's last colonizer : the life and times of William H. Smart PY - 2008 SN - 0874217229 9786612822230 0874217237 1282822233 9780874217230 9780874217223 9781282822238 PB - Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mormons -- Utah -- Biography. KW - Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937. KW - Utah -- History. KW - Mormons KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Christianity KW - Smart, William H. KW - Utah KW - History. KW - Latter Day Saints KW - Brighamite Mormons KW - Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members KW - Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members KW - Hedrikites KW - Josephite Mormons KW - Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members KW - Reorganized Mormons KW - RLDS Mormons KW - Strangite Mormons KW - Temple Lot Mormons KW - Utah Mormons KW - Christians UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7615180 AB - Winner of the Evans Handcart Prize 2009. Winner of the Mormon History Assn Best Biography Award 2009. By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom. Included with the biography is a searchable CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural isolation into twentieth-century national integration. ER -