The Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras
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The Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras (or simply The Danites) is drama by Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)[1]
Miller was an American poet and frontiersman, nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras", who numerous works about the West and the Sierra Nevada region, and his play was an anti-Mormon drama, telling of Danites hunting the daughter of one of the murderers of Joseph Smith. He had adapted the play from his own novel, First Fam'lies of the Sierras, and it opened to surprising success on August 22 1877 in New York.
1885: Performed as The Danites in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by H.C. Sidney and the Sidney-Fiedler company.
