Jesse Knight. USHS collections.
Jesse Knight, Utah's Mormon Mining Mogul BY R I C H A R D H . PETERSON
in the precious and related nonprecious metals mining industry of the late nineteenth century trans-Mississippi West, and very few of these were members of the Church ofjesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Wallace Stegner aptly suggests, "mineral wealth . . . [was] generally, in the Mormon Country, the peculiar province of the Gentiles" (non-Mormons). Jesse Knight was a notable exception to this rule. Not only was he a Utah T H E R E WERE RELATIVELY FEW MILLIONAIRES
Dr. Peterson is professor of history at San Diego State University.
