Imperium in imperio : sovereignty and the American territorial system -- Intimate contact : gender, plural marriage, and the U.S. Army in Utah Territory, 1854-1856 -- Missionaries to the Indians : Mormon and federal Indian policies -- Confronting the "twin relics of barbarism" : the Mormon question, the Buchanan administration, and the limits of popular sovereignty -- The Utah War and the westward march of federal sovereignty, 1857-1858 -- The U.S. Army and the symbolic conquering of Mormon sovereignty -- To 1862 : the codification of federal authority and the end of popular sovereignty in the western territories.
