The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858

Genteel Gentile, page 034

"Utah War," pp. 71-80. In ]372 ICane would reearn to U ta h with his wile iin<.' two sons for a journey through the territory as bVigham preserved in r.Ibabelh Wood Kane's Tiurhe Mm won li-.wu--. Though Kane never joined the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, lie rema.ned a firm suppoites of ihe Mot-mons. Upon Brigham Young':; death in 1877, in spite of his own poor health, K,inp traveled to Salt Lake City for the Mormon leader's funeral. K<uie, Twhe Momwx Hvt,w:. Visiiul r,i Smi^iox <>« n jjmmy ilnvugl\ ill ah io An aw a, 1974). follow;;. -Colonel K.nif, ivith ,-, suitable escort, made his way through tin1 ^"lountain snow;; anil leat-heil ClUiij' ^i.ntt on the 10th clay of March 1853. His arrival created some txLitt'ni(_'iit i[i tho camp anci he rec[ucbteil to be ^.oildueted for Utah. He was cordially received. The new Governor espou^ed the i.iuse l'J Lhc peace an^bas^.ulof vvfio was then on a mission entrusted to him by the President of the United Slates. The new Governor and the Commandei of the army were in ,intago:iism "I'his praclicuily left the issues of the difficulty in the hands of Bdgham Young." Stowcll, Wrllniiij Rufiit Ri>%en Slo.adl, p. 32. For more infoi'mation on I ho mas Kane and his rclation^hsp !vith the Mormons, see Thomas L. Kane, The Private Pupm mid Dirin/ a) Tiwimti, /.cif-cr Kiint: A Friend c( I lie Mormons, eel. Oscar (.)'. Winlher (San 1 rancisco: Gclber-I-ilienlhal, [937) and Albert L. Zobell, Smltnul in the En-,1- A Biography oj Thomas L. Kn>ie (Salt Lake City: N. G. Morgan, 1965). 34