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1/55. 19pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by Bagley on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 16 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'The White's Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847 to 1877.' Floyd O'Neil (1927-2018), spent his childhood in the Uintah Basin, where he attended high school and then Carbon College before moving on to the University of Utah, where he was awarded a B.S. in History in 1957 and a Ph.D. in History in 1973. He served as director of the American West Center from 1986 to 1996. His work in documenting the indigenous peoples of the interior west would be hard to overstate and his influence on a generation of scholars, academics, and historians is immense The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier,' is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core. Signed.