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Title: Scoundrel's Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers by Will Bagley, Sam Brannan ISBN: 0-87421-273-1 Publisher: Utah State University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Summary: the real story of Sam Brannan
Comment: Sam Brannan is a mythic character. He was on the scene and usually a major player in most of early California history, from the founding of San Francisco and Sacramento to the publicity of and fortunes made from the Gold Rush. Like most larger than life figures, facts about him are hidden within the obscuring mists of legend.

William Bagley has done the heroic task of sifting through literally all available letters to, from, and about Brannan by first person sources. With access to documents previously hidden in the depths of the Salt Lake City archives, Bagley is able to weave a crazy quilt story of an apprentice printer living with Joseph Smith's family who became a brilliant young evangelist who stumped throughout the US in the mid 1800s, and as President of the Saints in the West spearheaded a voyage of saints hoping to establish a Mormon principality on the west coast of America. The fact that in his later years, having made and lost fortunes larger than most will ever see, he claimed never to have been a Mormon at all makes the story even more intriguing.

Bagley's meticulous attention to details, footnotes, and absolutely complete index makes this both a fascinating read and an invaluable reference book. If you want or need to know anything about Sam Brannan, I can think of no better place to start.

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