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First Edition, 1/55. 22pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 4 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives.' 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 Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core Will Bagley (1950-2021) wrote and edited more than twenty books on overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. He lectured widely and had appeared in more than a dozen films, including the American Experience episode of the 'The Mormons' on PBS. He was one of the finest historians of the postwar period and a legend. Signed.