The Danites, or the Heart of the Sierras
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 (a fraternal organization founded by members of the Latter Day Saints or Mormons to serve as a vigilante group during the 1838 Mormon War)[2] who hunted the daughter of one of the murderers of Joseph Smith.
Miller had adapted the play from his own work, a series of prose sketches called First Fam'lies of the Sierras (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1876)[3].
The play (in four acts) was later published as a readers' edition under the title The Danites in the Sierras by San Francisco, Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin co., 1910.[4]
by Joaquin Miller. and was originally title The Danites in the Sierras (in four acts), and it opened to surprising success on August 22 1877 in New York.
Play based on the author's prose sketches of same title, which first appeared under title: First four lies of the Sierras.
1885: Performed as The Danites in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by H.C. Sidney and the Sidney-Fiedler company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danite
