Mormon Envoy

Bruce W. Worthen is an independent scholar.

Introduction: The Diplomacy of John Milton Bernhisel "My Journey to the Westward" "Stand Still and See the Salvation of God" Four Miles from Carthage The Angry Apostle An Adopted Son and a Travelling Bishop Far from the Land of Our Enemies Correcting Public Opinion Old Rough and Ready Great Basin Confrontation "We Have Only Asked for Simple Justice" "Throwing Down the Glove" Dueling Discourses "A Most Turbulent, Disloyal, and Rebellious People" Wild Fire "When a Thousand Years Have Slept Away" "Let Uncle Sam Choose" Wrongs Real and Imaginary The Train of Hell The Great Wheel of Time Conclusion: Out of the West Appendix: Bernhisel's Marriages Notes Bibliography Index

"Worthen's biography of Bernhisel is also an elegantly written history lesson." --Library Journal "An erudite biography. . . . Worthen does an excellent job of tracing Bernhisel's diplomacy and highlights his efforts to reconcile the Latter-day Saints' push for autonomy with the government's concern about the potential for a Western separatist movement in the lead-up to the Civil War. " --Publishers Weekly "Mormon Envoy recovers the fascinating life of John Bernhisel, a physician-turned-diplomat with unprecedented access to mid-nineteenth-century American and Latter-day Saint leaders. If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for pioneer-era Mormonism's formative personalities, events, and controversies, this book is for you."--Patrick Q. Mason, author of Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt