{"product_id":"glory-hunter-brigham-madsen-9781607811541","title":"Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patric Edward Connor","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of Patrick Edward Connor serves as a half-century slice of western American history. After leaving New York City, where he had arrived at the age of twelve as a poor Irish immigrant, the nineteen-year-old youth joined the U.S. Army in 1839. He fought in the war with Mexico and then joined the gold rush in California until marrying and settling down in Stockton in 1854.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Civil War found him volunteering again, this time as colonel of California troops sent to the Utah Territory to protect the mail lines from Indian attacks. Bitterly anti-Mormon, Connor spent the war years alternately engaging in a war of words with Brigham Young or in fighting Indians in northern Utah and present-day Wyoming. After the Civil War, ex-Major General Connor began mining operations in Utah and Nevada, ventures that went from boom to bust. He spent his final years in straitened financial circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Edward Connor was a \"Man of the West,\" possessing both its prejudices and its democratic, independent spirit. His greatest success lay as a military leader, and he would have agreed that he was made for war, not peace. He left an imprint on the history of the American West, remembered as the founder of Fort Douglas, as the \"first gentile in Utah,\" the \"father of Utah mining,\" and the \"father of the Liberal Party in Utah.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brigham Madsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607811545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607811541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Utah Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Brigham Madsen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452738748671,"sku":"9781607811541","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75f72720-3112-4bb4-b747-df4dd683af93.jpg?v=1761930218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/glory-hunter-brigham-madsen-9781607811541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}