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The Utah Letters of Alexander C. Badger, Jr. E D I T E D BY D E N N I S R. DEFA
O NCE CAMP DOUGLAS WAS ESTABLISHED in October 1862 non- Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley in greater number than ever before. Alexander Caldwell Badger, Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri, was one of the people who came as a direct result of this military presence. Badger arrived in Salt Lake City on January 1, 1863, traveling by stagecoach from San Francisco. A civilian employee of the United States Army, Mr. Defa is personnel manager. University of Utah Libraries. The Badger letters are published here with the permission of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
