Follower of Brigham Young

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Rosalinda rummaged amid the spilled trade goods for something to eat as she told him how she and her two sisters, the daughters of a Butterfield wrangler and his Indian mujer, had all three married up with the Anglo trader here at Growler Wash, a nice old Mormon gent called Pop Wolfram.

Mormon history, and the noted Mountain Meadow massacre, see Appendices A and B.

Mormon Church cases were decided prior to the emergence of the clear and present danger doctrine dealt with below.

The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it.

For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.

Lord had revealed that the land of the Ute Mountain Utes would be the site where the first hard evidence would be discovered to support the Mormon belief in the emigration of the Lamanites and the Nephites from Egypt to the New World.

The older Indian sites, they theorized, were more likely to show evidence of the migration of the followers of Lehi--the ancestors of the Lamanites and the Nephites--to the New World hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, as chronicled in the Book of Mormon.

His understanding of what the Book of Mormon predicted about artifacts left by the Lamanites and the Nephites was perfunctory, even elementary.

The Lamanites of the mainland are descending upon the Mormon kingdom as the hosts of Israel upon Canaan!

Frank Skimmerhorn pondered this matter of the Lamanites, and he asked throughout Nauvoo for other recollections the villagers might have as to what exactly the Mormons had said during their unhappy stay there on their way to Salt Lake City, and he came up with a profound body of confirmation.

Brigham as Territorial Governor made it plain that Mormondom was for the Mormons.

Although the tour group never got closer than ten yards away from any door to the imposing granite temple, they visited the famed Mormon Tabernacle and for most of an hour digested a version of Mormondom so sanitized that the Church could have been mistaken for a mainstream Protestant sect.

It had come back to life the minute Mormonism turned legal again, even before the Mormon Tabernacle was rebuilt.

The parquette of the theatre is occupied exclusively by the Mormons and their wives and children.

It is an odd sight to see a jovial old Mormon file down the parquette aisle with ten or twenty robust wives at his heels.