The Deseret News. Two issues of this early Mormon newspaper, published in Salt Lake City on April 7 and April 14, 1858, each four pages, some edge splits and tears but all content present, Fine and scarce pair of issues from this newspaper which was founded in 1850, according to Wikipedia, this was the newspaper for the State of Deseret, which was proposed in 1849 by Latter-day Saint settlers in Salt Lake City as a provisional state of the United States, the provisional state existed for slightly over two years and was never recognized by the United States government, the name derives from the word for "honeybee" in the Book of Mormon

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