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Stephen LeSueur is a former journalist, author and historian.  His book “The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri” won the John Whitmer Historical Association award for best book in 1987.

Stephen worked for over five years as the editor of “Washington Technology,” and is a former journalist for “Deseret News,” covering national security issues and the defense industry. (SteveLesueurl.com)

Stephen ‘s latest book “Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier: The Murders of Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons by the Wild Bunch” is now available.

“The Wild Bunch was the largest and most notorious band of outlaws in the American West. Led by two gunmen better known by their aliases, Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) and Kid Curry (Harvey Logan), the Wild Bunch was an informal trust of thieves and rustlers that preyed upon stagecoaches, small banks, and especially railroads from the late 1880s to the first decade of the twentieth century.”(Metmuseum.org, author unknown)

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