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 novel, First Fam'lies of the Sierras (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1876)[3], 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller
