Editors MacKinnon and Alford, contextualize the little-known novella by Albert G. Brown entitled Ward of the Three Guardians. The novella, published in the New York Tribune and the Atlantic in [give exact year], is an early example of a fact-fiction presentation on the Utah War, the Mormons of the Utah Territory, polygamy and the important role women played in these events. This volume is an important new source of Western history.