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The Prophet and the Reformer
The Prophet
and the
Reformer
The Letters of Brigham Young
and Thomas L. Kane
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1. Young, Brigham, 1801–1877—Correspondence. 2. Prophets—United
States—Correspondence. 3. Kane, Thomas L. (Thomas Leiper), 1822–1883—
Correspondence. 4. Mormon converts—United States—Correspondence. I. Grow,
Matthew J., editor. II. Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939– editor.
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Contents
Abbreviations Used in Notes xiii
Editorial Method/Transcription Symbols xv
Introduction 1
Letters
1. Young to Kane, August 2, 1846 15
2. Kane to Young, September 10, 1846 25
3. Kane to Young, September 22, 1846 32
4. Kane to Young, November 5, 1846 36
5. Kane to Young or Willard Richards, December 2, 1846 38
6. Young and Willard Richards to Kane, December 6, 1847 43
7. Kane to Young, December 9, 1847 51
8. Young to Kane, February 9, 1848 56
9. Kane to Young, March 14, 1848 60
10. Young to Kane, May 9, 1848 62
11. Young to Kane, October 20, 1849 64
12. Kane to Young, July 11, 1850 67
13. Kane to Young, September 24, 1850 79
14. Kane to Young, February 19, 1851 91
15. Kane to Young, February 21, 1851 107
viii Contents
16. Kane to Young, April 7, 1851 108
17. Kane to Young, April 7, 1851 110
18. Kane to Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Willard Richards,
July 29, 1851 112
19. Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Willard Richards to Kane,
September 15, 1851 123
20. Young to Kane, May 29, 1852 132
21. Kane to Young, October 17, 1852 138
22. Young to Kane, May 20, 1853 145
23. Kane to Young, July 18, 1853 151
24. Young to Kane, January 31, 1854 157
25. Kane to Young, April 28, 1854 164
26. Young to Kane, June 29, 1854 167
27. Young to Kane, October 30, 1854 171
28. Kane to Young, January 5, 1855 178
29. Kane to Young, July 10, 1855 184
30. Young to Kane, September 30, 1855 186
31. Young to Kane, April 14, 1856 190
32. Young to Kane, January 7, 1857 198
33. Young to Kane, January 31, 1857 211
34. Kane to Young, circa March 1857 215
35. Kane to Young, May 21, 1857 219
36. Young to Kane, June 29, 1857 223
37. Young to Kane, September 12, 1857 227
38. Kane to Young, February 17, 1858 233
39. Kane to Young, February 25, 1858 239
40. Young to Kane, February 25, 1858 241
Contents ix
41. Young to Kane, March 9, 1858 245
42. Kane to Young, ca. March 16, 1858 249
43. Young to Kane, April 17, 1858 254
44. Young to Kane, May 8, 1858 260
45. Young to Kane, May 12, 1858 263
46. Kane to Young, July 5, 1858 266
47. Kane to Young, July 18, 1858 271
48. Young to Kane, August 6, 1858 276
49. Kane to Young, August 25, 1858 283
50. Young to Kane, September 1, 1858 287
51. Young to Kane, September 10, 1858 290
52. Young to Kane, October 22, 1858 299
53. Young to Kane, October 29, 1858 306
54. Young to Kane, November 22, 1858 309
55. Young to Kane, January 14, 1859 316
56. Young to Kane, May 3, 1859 322
57. Kane to Young, July 24, 1859 330
58. Young to Kane, September 17, 1859 336
59. Young to Kane, December 15, 1859 344
60. Young to Kane, March 22, 1860 352
61. Kane to Young, April 25, 1860 356
62. Young to Kane, April 26, 1860 360
63. Kane to Young, August 15, 1860 363
64. Young to Kane, September 27, 1860 366
65. Young to Kane, September 21, 1861 369
66. Kane to Young, November 23, 1861 378
x Contents
67. Young to Kane, April 29, 1864 380
68. Young to Kane, April 15, 1866 387
69. Young to Kane, November 9, 1867 389
70. Kane to Young, May 4, 1869 392
71. Kane to Young, October 13, 1869 396
72. Young to Kane, October 15, 1869 399
73. Young to Kane, October 26, 1869 402
74. Young to Kane, February 14, 1870 405
75. Kane to Young, March 20, 1870 410
76. Kane to Young, June 18, 1870 414
77. Young to Kane, August 16, 1870 417
78. Young to Kane, April 16, 1871 420
79. Young to Kane, September 27, 1871 427
80. Kane to Young, October 12, 1871 433
81. Kane to Young, November 9, 1871 436
82. Kane to Young, November 30, 1871 440
83. Young to Kane, March 5, 1872 447
84. Kane to Young, October 16, 1872 453
85. Young to Kane, October 31, 1872 456
86. Young to Kane, December 9, 1872 458
87. Kane to Young, April 2, 1873 462
88. Kane to Young, April 4, 1873 465
89. Kane to Young, April 15, 1873 469
90. Young to Kane, May 7, 1873 471
91. Young to Kane, July 31, 1873 474
92. Young to Kane, November 16, 1873 479
93. Kane to Young, December 4, 1873 482
Contents xi
94. Kane to Young, September 12, 1875 489
95. Kane to Young, May 28, 1876 491
96. Kane to Young, October 21, 1876 495
97. Kane to Young, February 8, 1877 498
98. Kane to Young, March 2, 1877 [Letter #1] 500
99. Kane to Young, March 2, 1877 [Letter #2] 503
Epilogue 507
Index 513
Abbreviations Used in Notes
APS American Philosophical Society
BYOF Brigham Young Office Files, Church History Library
CHL Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints
Kane Collection, BYU Thomas L. and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection, L. Tom
Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library,
Brigham Young University
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as the primary text, except where a copy of the final letter is not extant. In
these cases, we have used drafts of letters. We have standardized some fea-
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places. To ensure quality, the transcription of the letters has been verified
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panied by footnotes to explain historical context and any textual issues. We
have left in some duplication in the introductions and notes so that the book
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The Prophet and the Reformer
Introduction
On July 11, 1846, a 24-year-old, diminutive, sickly, and elite Philadelphian
arrived in a refugee camp on the plains of western Iowa to visit the Mormons
who had been forcibly expelled from Illinois that year. The unlikely visitor,
Thomas L. Kane, had not stumbled upon the Mormon camps by chance. Two
months earlier, Kane had met Jesse C. Little, an agent dispatched by Mormon
leader Brigham Young to lobby for government support for the Latter-day
Saints. An aspiring social reformer, Kane believed that a relationship with
the Mormons would prove mutually advantageous. Sympathizing with the
Mormons’ plight, he thought that a book recounting their woes would help
their cause and establish his reputation as an author and humanitarian. He
further dreamed that accompanying the Mormons to California, their pur-
ported destination, would open political doors for him, possibly even the
governorship, once California entered the United States. As he confided to a
brother, he hoped “to help the poor Mormons to my utmost, principally—but
also to help myself if I see anything outstanding.”1 There may have been some-
thing else that prompted his visit. Kane would later claim to have been part
of a “little state secret,” known only to a handful of men, perhaps a role in
President James K. Polk’s schemes to expand American borders.2
Six weeks prior to his arrival in the Mormon camps, Kane had drawn
upon his father’s extensive political connections to assist Little in persuad-
ing Polk and his cabinet to commission a regiment of Mormon soldiers for
the Mexican–American War. An army officer, who had arrived in the make-
shift Mormon settlements a few days before Kane to recruit the soldiers, had
1. Thomas L. Kane to Elisha K. Kane, May 27, 1846, Thomas L. Kane Papers, APS.
2. Kane to Elizabeth Wood, May 19–21, 1852, Kane Collection, BYU.
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