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- |H=THE SETTLING OF SOUTHERN UTAH—BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 23: THE SETTLING OF SOUTHERN UTAH—BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE, ETC.31 KB (5,775 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...praise to him. The brethren who have gone from the different parts of the Territory to labor in the mission have as a general thing, enjoyed good health; and t ...faces: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Can any good come out of Utah? This of course, is owing to the widespread misunderstanding in regard to o31 KB (5,489 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...but they gave us a Territorial form of government and named the Territory Utah; and strange to say, how men and nations change, they are trying to interfe ...the new theocracy with the descendants of an old theocracy—priest-ridden Utah with "cultured" Massachusetts, also adding the District of Columbia, which71 KB (12,440 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...DIVISIONS IN SECTARIAN CHURCHES—UNITY OF THE SAINTS—EARLY HISTORY OF UTAH—"MORMON" THRIFT AND ENTERPRISE—THE ONE-MAN POWER—GOD'S PEOPLE A FREE ...DIVISIONS IN SECTARIAN CHURCHES—UNITY OF THE SAINTS—EARLY HISTORY OF UTAH—"MORMON" THRIFT AND ENTERPRISE—THE ONE-MAN POWER—GOD'S PEOPLE A FREE32 KB (5,612 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...and spreading abroad, taking root in the land. In the southern part of the Territory they are not prospering to so great an extent as they are in the middle and ...been the case in Utah alone, that is, since the Latter-day Saints came to Utah, but it has been a peculiarity of this work—the work of God—from the da43 KB (8,146 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...r upon the earth. Many who are here to-day, many thousands throughout this Territory, who are now connected with this Church, have wished that they could have l ...hers who lived 1,800 or 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. Utah became an organized territory because of this fact; that there had been begotten in the hearts of the peo28 KB (5,187 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...ir faith by gathering out from the various nations and coming here to Utah Territory. They are believers. Is there any chance for them to doubt? How can you dou21 KB (3,827 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...; in other words, that an investigating committee be sent to the people of Utah to see them as they are; to come, if need be, into our homes and pry into e ...nd. Such domination, ecclesiastical, political or social does not exist in Utah among the "Mormons ;" possibly it may exist in the midst of those comprisin63 KB (11,097 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...or religious standing to jeopardise are satisfied that the affairs of our Territory have been administered honorably and honestly. ...foundation of good government, it will be sons and daughters of polygamous Utah, that will be found the true friends of human liberty, the true friends of35 KB (6,383 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...HIP—THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND HER DAUGHTERS—THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN UTAH—THE RIGHTS OF MAN, THE SUPPORTERS AND SUBVERTERS OF LAW AND ORDER—RELIG ...HIP—THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND HER DAUGHTERS—THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN UTAH—THE RIGHTS OF MAN, THE SUPPORTERS AND SUBVERTERS OF LAW AND ORDER—RELIG46 KB (8,267 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...C—IN TIME OF TROUBLE TRUST IN GOD, "WATCH THE CAPTAIN"—THE ACTS OF THE UTAH COMMISSIONERS—GOD'S OVERRULING POWER AND WISDOM—A GREAT WORK REQUIRES G ...C—IN TIME OF TROUBLE TRUST IN GOD, "WATCH THE CAPTAIN"—THE ACTS OF THE UTAH COMMISSIONERS—GOD'S OVERRULING POWER AND WISDOM—A GREAT WORK REQUIRES G39 KB (7,344 words) - 14:46, 13 April 2024
- ...s and Territories and of European countries, it appears that the people of Utah stand in the front ranks in relation to education, and are in advance of ma ...ce to deliver them from the power of their enemies; or if the Territory of Utah had been inhabited by the same number of people composed of the various sec26 KB (4,695 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...RTATION FROM ISAIAH—THE SAINTS OBEYING IT—GLIMPSE AT THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—FULFILLING ANCIENT PROPHECIES—JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, THE DESTINATION ...RTATION FROM ISAIAH—THE SAINTS OBEYING IT—GLIMPSE AT THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH—FULFILLING ANCIENT PROPHECIES—JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, THE DESTINATION40 KB (7,380 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...e existence of spiritual powers and influences, let them examine into this Utah question and the effects of its agitation upon the public mind, and it seem ...to manhood pure, in proportion to the population than in the Territory of Utah.40 KB (7,468 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...ering tales about the life that they will lead if they will only gather to Utah; and by these means they are successful in beguiling the ignorant and unsus ...esident Brigham Young; that no man or woman could write a letter from Utah Territory without it being inspected by him; that we lived here in a condition of ter35 KB (6,566 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...tainly with the increase of the facilities to which I have referred in our Territory, there has been a corresponding increase of evils which have to be contende ...ich drew them here. But no observing man or woman who travels through this Territory, and mingles with the people can be deceived by any such nonsense as this.36 KB (6,687 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...DISPENSATIONS—HOW THE GOSPEL WAS RESTORED—THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST—UTAH BUILT UP BY THE POWER OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVED ALL THE KEYS OF THE PR ...DISPENSATIONS—HOW THE GOSPEL WAS RESTORED—THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST—UTAH BUILT UP BY THE POWER OF GOD—JOSEPH SMITH RECEIVED ALL THE KEYS OF THE PR29 KB (5,508 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...hose who make these charges claim that it is because of their influence in Utah—the influence of the world—of the public press—the presence in our mi ...of terror never did exist in Utah or among this people anywhere? I came to Utah in 1848; I have been a resident among this people from my childhood; I have20 KB (3,592 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...Territory—that by the combination of these elements the supremacy of the Territory would be wrested from the control of those who had had it in their hands, a ...ort of our destruction. I expect you felt it here as the Saints felt it in Utah, and as I felt it in Washington. The papers, as you will remember, were ful26 KB (4,663 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...people and put it into the hands of their enemies, and make us an outside Territory, subject to their oppressions, subject to all manner of taxation that they ...ir ability, smartness and competency beyond their predecessors, to capture Utah, and turn her over to the hands of the ungodly; it appears that every one w27 KB (4,938 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...this nation in a political point of view. We are here in this Territory of Utah. We were told {{page break|293|top}} to gather here by the Lord, and we hav32 KB (6,012 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...e Gospel, or stay at home and preach it, or go to some distant part of the Territory and help to colonize it, or to perform any other work that is necessary for ...ho has just returned from a mission to his native land. He did not come to Utah to find out if this thing called "Mormonism," was true or not. He found tha40 KB (7,525 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...people, and put it into the hands of their enemies, and make us an outside Territory, subject to their oppressions, subject to all manner of taxation that they ...r ability, smartness and competency, beyond their predecessors, to capture Utah, and turn her over to the hands of the ungodly; it appears that every one w26 KB (4,917 words) - 14:47, 13 April 2024
- ...day cannot be narrowed down to the few people who live in the Territory of Utah. But running out from here as veins and arteries from the human heart, it p33 KB (6,162 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...per cent contributed seven-eighths. The number of brothels throughout the Territory was 12, all kept by non-Mormons."42 KB (7,949 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...CAL FACTS THAT OUGHT TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM—ANOMALOUS TREATMENT OF UTAH—GOVERNOR YOUNG'S POLICY AND THAT OF HIS SUCCESSOR DIFFERENT—ISAIAH'S PR ...CAL FACTS THAT OUGHT TO BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM—ANOMALOUS TREATMENT OF UTAH—GOVERNOR YOUNG'S POLICY AND THAT OF HIS SUCCESSOR DIFFERENT—ISAIAH'S PR39 KB (6,840 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...e without a governor, and wanted one? We would turn back in the history of Utah, and find how Governor Young was appointed, and then appoint one the same w ...he Elders to administer to the sick, and they are healed, and thousands in Utah, and hundreds throughout the world, can testify that they have seen the pow45 KB (8,288 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...in the Territories of Arizona or New Mexico, not even in the Territory of Utah. From my earliest recollections, pretty nearly, to the present time, consta ...ies in the same condition that enemies have shown themselves to be in this Territory—fighting, beating the empty air, thinking that they had a foe before them15 KB (2,800 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...te of all earth and hell. That is what it means. Had it not been for this, Utah would have been a desert today as it was when we found it. ...n in a thousand that attempts to represent this case. We have not a boy in Utah in our common schools, over twelve years of age, but knows, when he reads t53 KB (9,777 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...and by his efforts, many of the people, especially in the southern part of Utah and in Arizona, became united together in organizations that were called "t ...tion to the Latter-day Saints, and in using his power abroad as well as in Utah against the interests of the people from whom he gets his money.26 KB (5,018 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...h our declared enemies, take possession of the reins of government in this Territory, and manage affairs, so that they would be more in accord with the general ...the Son of God, a jealousy of the power that Priesthood wields, and in our Territory they are constantly seeking by every means within their reach to weaken the11 KB (1,976 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...t there is a combination in all the officers of State, officiating in this Territory, to back up this political intrigue in the interest of party, and at the sa "The population of Utah may be estimated at 160,000 in 1883.49 KB (9,003 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...TES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH ...TES—THE DEBASED POSITION OF U.S. OFFICIALS AS EXHIBITED IN THE COURTS OF UTAH62 KB (11,305 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...yrum was further elaborated on by Hubert Howe Bancroft in his ''History of Utah''. Bancroft notes the following regarding the temple garment, ...ot done so, he would have escaped unharmed.<ref>{{Book:Bancroft:History of Utah|pages=357 n.17}}</ref>10 KB (1,742 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, January 1871, Smithfield, Utah Territory, ''[[Saints' Herald]]'' 22 (15 October 1875):630, in ''EMD'' 2: 338 ("No ma ...in the possession of his daughter, Florence (Godfrey) Munson of Fielding, Utah; quoted in Eldin Ricks, The Case of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake19 KB (2,893 words) - 13:34, 13 April 2024
- ...of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, January 1871, Smithfield, Utah Territory, in ''EMD'', 2: 338. See also Richard Lloyd Anderson, ''Investigating the B "In 1856 Harris's wife left him to gather with the Mormons in Utah. Harris remained in Kirtland and, as caretaker of the temple, gave tours to46 KB (7,051 words) - 20:14, 11 May 2024
- ...n: Why did Brigham Young instruct members of the Church to grow tobacco in Utah?== ...spent annually on tobacco he preferred that these funds remain within the territory to foster further economic growth and self-sufficiency===3 KB (466 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...lege of and more."<ref>Brigham Young, Speech given in Joint Session of the Utah Legislature, February 5, 1952 in Fred Collier, ''The Teachings of President ...12, http://seminary.lds.org/history/centennial/eng/how-to-survive-in-enemy-territory/.</ref></blockquote>14 KB (2,141 words) - 15:26, 13 April 2024
- ...y in Utah?|slavery did become a practice]] among certain Saints during the Utah period). ...llin H. Oaks, Interview with Associated Press, in ''Daily Herald,'' Provo, Utah, 5 June 1988.</ref>10 KB (1,728 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ...r C. Kimball stated, “We are the people of Deseret, she shall be no more Utah: we will have our own name”. Why did this prophecy fail?" ...r C. Kimball stated, “We are the people of Deseret, she shall be no more Utah: we will have our own name”. Why did this prophecy fail?"==51 KB (8,385 words) - 19:04, 8 May 2024
- |L3=Response to claim: "Slaves were bought and sold in Utah Territory with the approval of Brigham Young" ==Response to claim: "Slaves were bought and sold in Utah Territory with the approval of Brigham Young"==42 KB (7,082 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- ...pose slavery?" They answer that Joseph Smith opposed it, but that the Utah territory allowed it. ...avery, which was legal at the time. This practice carried over to the Utah territory. The entire country eventually went to war with itself over this issue.13 KB (2,112 words) - 14:20, 13 April 2024
- *[[Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a m ...ing on the internet and attempting to imply that the internet is dangerous territory for testimonies and finding truth.44 KB (6,907 words) - 14:21, 13 April 2024
- ...of seceders from the Church have continuously resided and now live in this territory, many of whom have amassed considerable wealth, though bitterly opposed to * To be sure, there was some extra-legal violence in Utah, as there was everywhere on the American frontier (and as there still is to12 KB (1,943 words) - 14:24, 13 April 2024
- "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah," ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org: ...and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org (2013)</ref>529 KB (90,740 words) - 02:33, 19 May 2024
- ...lodges (the only lodges to which Brigham had access prior to the exodus to Utah) in 1857, long after Brigham's departure. (The 33 degree did not become for ...tory and a Grand Lodge is made up of all the Master Mason in that state or territory. The highest office any Mason can hold is that of Grand Master of a Grand L4 KB (674 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', 2 vols., DVD (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 2002), 1:18.</ref> ....wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Place_Monument [t]his is the place],” in Utah. He’s had the great experience of starting up the Mormon experiment in th10 KB (1,662 words) - 15:37, 13 April 2024
- ...he same number of our Children gathered up promiscusly in the Territory of Utah. '''There are some people & Countries who force & whip their Children into4 KB (618 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Was Utah's second governor, John W. Dawson, beaten by Latter-day Saints?== ...y and soundly beaten by a party of saints."<ref>{{Book:Bancroft:History of Utah|pages=604}}</ref> Some charged that Dawson had done this on his own, while3 KB (518 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- ...omised to bless those who do it abundantly, gain a residence in the Indian territory, independent of the agent....<ref>{{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pa ...imonial alliance" was for the purpose of gaining "residence" in the Indian territory===6 KB (1,018 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2024
- ...the founders of Utah incorporated in the laws of the Territory provisions for the capital punishment of those who wilfully shed the blood ...tory_encyclopedia/c/CAPITAL_PUNISHMENT.html CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN UTAH], ''Utah History Encyclopedia'' </ref>3 KB (556 words) - 15:28, 13 April 2024
- ...sure them up. Amen." <ref>Tullidge's Histories, Vol I. History of Northern Utah, and Southern Idaho.--Biographical Supplement, p. 271. See {{HC1|vol=5|star ...ters were for the time forgotten." <ref>Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Utah, 1540-1886'', 198.</ref> Thus, Bancroft saw the move west as one long conte23 KB (3,952 words) - 11:57, 20 May 2024
- ...to show that Brigham Young was the political dictator of the Territory of Utah, the author has quoted from a speech of Brigham Young recorded in the ''Jou4 KB (659 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- Taylor is not gloating that there is no more secular power in Utah territory. Rather, he is pointing out that no one among the Saints has secular solut5 KB (839 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...h is gone, and now brother Brigham Young, the Governor of the Territory of Utah, is our Prophet, our leader, our Revelator; and it is for me and you to lis4 KB (726 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ==Question: Did federal officials flee Utah because they feared for their lives?== ...espite disagreeing with the Mormons and their administration, did not flee Utah, and suffered no consequences as a result. The St. Louis ''Republican'' cri13 KB (2,141 words) - 15:13, 13 April 2024
- ...at no food or grain should be sold to "Gentiles" that were passing through Utah?== In attempting to identify reasons for conflict between Utah Mormons and non-Mormon emigrants and travelers, the author uses a letter fr6 KB (1,118 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...aid to have been destroyed the first time Brigham visited that part of the Territory" (Waite, ''The Mormon Prophet and his Harem'', 71). ...ly connected by the judge with President Young’s first visit to southern Utah after it was erected (1861)."<ref>{CHC1|vol=4|pages=176, note}}; also cited7 KB (1,141 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...tharine Miles Larson, eds., ''Diary of Charles Lowell Walker'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1980), 2:755–56 [recorded 2 February 1893]. Fifty-three years ago in the town of Pontiac, Oakland County and then Territory, but since State of Michigan when I was but thirteen years of age. I first9 KB (1,509 words) - 15:24, 13 April 2024
- .... <ref>Letter of Martin Harris, Sr., to Hanna B. Emerson, Smithfield, Utah Territory, in ''Early Mormon Documents'', 2: 338.</ref>1 KB (172 words) - 15:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ren, ''The Land of Lehi: Further Evidence for the Book of Mormon'' (Provo, Utah: Bradford & Wilson, 1995). ...posals that are trying to reclaim New York as ancient Nephite and Lamanite territory...9 KB (1,483 words) - 22:19, 30 April 2024
- ...de to frustrate further prosecutions, an acting attorney general confirmed Utah inquiries from the U.S. marshal that reward money was still offered for the ...tion by Rev. Robert Joseph Dwyer later published as ''The Gentile Comes to Utah: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862—1890).'' This is a weak w28 KB (4,656 words) - 22:22, 30 April 2024
- * The post-Utah war amnesty led some non-members to believe that the massacre was covered u * The grand jury in southern Utah was never asked to indict anyone for the Massacre during their first sessio20 KB (3,082 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2024
- ...ssed [[Crime_and_violence_in_Utah|here]], violent crime and vigilantism in Utah was much ''less'' frequent than elsewhere in the Union, especially on the f ...OOT=/jmh&CISOPTR=18820&REC=3}}</ref> to date of the murder in Springville, Utah, of Mormon apostates William and “Beason” Parrish and spy “Duff” Po7 KB (1,091 words) - 15:29, 13 April 2024
- Despite invitations to leave, debt and poverty in Utah could be a significant barrier for apostates to actually do so.<ref>Aird, p ...to be entertained. The fact that hundreds annually have peaceably left the Territory, from its first settlement to the present time is ample refutation of any s5 KB (867 words) - 15:36, 13 April 2024
- ===In September 1857 a group of Mormons in southern Utah killed all adult members of an Arkansas wagon train that was headed for Cal In September 1857 a group of Mormons in southern Utah killed all adult members of an Arkansas wagon train that was headed for Cal26 KB (4,391 words) - 14:25, 13 April 2024
- ...massacre, because if Van Vliet came to know about it, "an invasion of Utah Territory would be expedited" (p. 165). There is no historical support for this claim930 bytes (137 words) - 13:18, 1 May 2024
- ==Question: Did Brigham Young institute slavery in Utah?== ===Brigham Young instituted slavery in Utah===4 KB (598 words) - 15:12, 13 April 2024
- ...te professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Utah, in the June 1989 issue of ''Sunstone Magazine''.<ref>Fred Buchanan, "[http ...e island of Great Comoro (Grande Comore) where Maroni, the capitol of this territory (not shown on the map discussed here or on other period maps which I have e57 KB (9,248 words) - 01:18, 19 May 2023
- ...s us that "if any court in the American West (excepting, of course, one of Utah's probate courts) had seen the evidence [the Dimick Huntington diary] conta ...op, John D. Lee'' (St. Louis: Bryan, Brand, 1877; reprint, Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, n.d.), 223. Although I have doubts about this encounte17 KB (2,791 words) - 16:51, 11 May 2024
- ...eclined. In 1856, his wife Caroline left him to gather with the Mormons in Utah while he remained in Kirtland and gave tours of the temple to curious visit ...red by LDS Church, is performed every other year in August in [[Clarkston, Utah|Clarkston]].44 KB (6,506 words) - 06:18, 15 May 2024