Life in Utah has never been easy. Thin soil and thick politics challenged everyone as Utah grew toward statehood in 1896. Native Americans, Mormon and gentile settlers, federal officials, LDS Church leaders—these Utah men and women all filled crucial roles. This book contains the best articles from BYU Studies on Utah history. Looking back on life in pioneer Utah, this centennial collection includes stories that are deeply rooted in the life of this state. Contents "Editors’ Introduction" "Native Women on the Utah Frontier" by Ronald W. Walker "Brigham Young and Mormon Indian Policies: The Formative Period, 1836–1851" by Lawrence G. Coates "The Constitution of the State of Deseret" by Peter Crawley "Theory and Practice of Church and State during the Brigham Young Era" by J. Keith Melville "The Move South" by Richard D. Poll "Federal Government Efforts to 'Americanize' Utah before Admission to Statehood" by Gustive O. Larson "British Travelers View the Saints, 1847–1877" by Edwina Jo Snow "A Rocky Mountain Book Store: Savage and Ottinger of Utah" by Madeleine B. Stern "Sisters under the Skin: Utah’s Mormon and Non-Mormon Women and Their Publications" by Sherilyn Cox Bennion "Eliza R. Snow and the Woman Question" by Jill Mulvay Derr "Emmeline B. Wells: 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?'" by Carol Cornwall Madsen "In Order to Be in Fashion I Am Called on a Mission': Wilford Woodruff’s Parting Letter to Emma As He Joins the 'Underground'" by Wilford Woodruff, edited by William G. Hartley "Wilford Woodruff, Sportsman" by Wilford Woodruff, edited by James B. Allen and Herbert H. Frost "Personal Faith and Public Policy: Some Timely Observations on the League of Nations Controversy in Utah" by James B. Allen "Cooperation, Conflict, and Compromise: Women, Men, and the Environment in Salt Lake City, 1890–1930" by Thomas G. Alexander Contributors