Item #17950 Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, The Danite Chief of Utah. ANTI-MORMON, Bill Hickman, J. H. Beadle.
Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, The Danite Chief of Utah

Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, The Danite Chief of Utah

New York: Geo. A. Crofutt, 1872.

First Edition. 5" x 7", pp vii, 219, [5] (ads), illustrated with engravings. A good copy in publisher's green cloth with portrait of Hickman and his facsimile signature in gilt on front board. Boards edgeworn and lightly soiled, gilt rubbed; binding sound, text clean but for very minor annotation on two pages. Autobiography of frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickman (1815-1883), who was baptized into the Mormon church in 1839 and served as a bodyguard to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young before being excommunicated in 1868. In this book he attributes his expulsion to his refusal to carry out a murder on behalf of Brigham Young, but also confesses to having killed several others on the Prophet's behalf. In addition to its anti-Mormon content, Hickman's memoir is of interest for his account of his trip across the plains to Salt Lake in 1849 and the journey to California; his experiences among the miners and in the mining camps; and his wide-ranging travels in the West in the 1860s. Howes H-465; Graff 1879; Flake 3990.

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