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  • ...m Young (Terence Stamp), the head of the Mormon church and the Governor of Utah at that time; but historians...say it is unclear whether Young was directly
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  • #Allen J. Stout, "Allen J. Stout Journal," under June 28, 1844, Utah State Historical Society, 14, online at <nowiki>http://www.math.byu.edu/~sm #Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Utah, 1540-1886'', 505.
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  • |L1=Response to claim: 256 - Was Brigham considered a "king" over the territory? ...as the death of "Col. Johnston," in the Civil War (of "Johnston's army" in Utah) on April 6 interpreted by Latter-day Saints as a sign of divine judgment?
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  • ...nse to claim: 325, 589n55 (PB) - Did "countless" plural marriages occur in Utah, Canada, and Mexico after the Manifesto, as the author claims? ...umber of years and borne me children…as a teacher of my religion in Utah territory, I have defended said tenet of said church as being in my belief a revelati
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  • ...crossed into Caldwell County and began threatening Mormons '''in their own territory'''." ..."Mormons" who were driven "from their homes" were not living "in their own territory?"
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  • ...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 encounte
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  • ==Question: Are the mysterious "Danites" in Utah a source of Mormon power, terror, and control?== Critics of the Church have long appealed to the "Danites" in Utah as a source of Mormon power, terror, and control. <ref>{{CriticalWork:Abane
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  • ...migrants deliberately poisoned a spring and an ox carcass near the central Utah town of Fillmore, causing illness and death among local Indians. According ...rn Utah. Jacob Forney, who succeeded Brigham Young as Indian agent for the territory, makes this as an explanation in his report to the government and cites the
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  • ...of their highly upright and excellent moral character while in the Indian territory…. Emigrating Mormons, to the number of nearly 20,000 are to be found west ===1855 Editorial, “The Mormons in Utah”, New York Times February 2, 1855, page 4===
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  • ...im: 67 - The author notes that several new federal officials fled the Utah Territory because they felt threatened ...im: 67 - The author notes that several new federal officials fled the Utah Territory because they felt threatened==
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  • ...aim: 115 - The author claims that "Indian" massacres that occurred in Utah Territory were actually carried out by "white-faced Indians who used Mormon slang" #Gustive O. Larson, "The Mormon Reformation," ''Utah Historical Society Quarterly'' 26 (January 1958).
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  • ...</ref> Is Brigham to be held responsible for every crime committed in the territory? ...s in her book. Her stated objective was to reclaim the "suffering women of Utah." She is the sole source for this "revelation," which has no basis in histo
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  • ...oves of Saints leaving California for Utah" and "a matching number leaving Utah of a crisis of conscience spurred by the events of Mountain Meadows" ...f van Vliet relayed news of the situation to Johnston, an invasion of Utah Territory would be expedited."
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  • ...letter reported recent news that no U.S. troops would be able to reach the territory before winter. “So you see that the Lord has answered our prayers and aga ...mary=It is claimed that Brigham Young's letter telling Mormons in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone is of dubious providence.
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  • ...norable man, and signed his name to it as the Governor of the Territory of Utah, and Willard Richards as Secretary. I told the mayor, in relation to these
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  • ...vernment here; and a government has been in existence in this Territory of Utah for five years. ...xican territory; but it was soon after acquired by treaty, and became U.S. territory. Four years and a half a government has been supported here, governmental l
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  • ...go where you please, IF YOU CAN. You may go and settle in any part of the Territory that you please; and furthermore, you may go to California if you wish. ...nd infinitely more extensive than the walling in of the whole territory of Utah. His work was given to him sixteen years ago, by the Prophet Joseph Smith,
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  • ...he First Judicial District Court of the United States for the Territory of Utah]]
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  • ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH
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  • ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE. ...HE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF HOWARD EGAN FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES MONROE.
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  • ...he First Judicial District Court of the United States for The Territory of Utah, to the Jury, on the Trial of Howard Egan for the Murder of James Monroe]] We went to the city of Provo, in Utah Valley; where I had some business to attend to. We tarried there a short ti
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  • ...as far as I have one on the subject, concerning these difficulties in this territory, north and south, pertaining to our brethren, the Lamanites. My testimony t ...t is absolutely necessary to do this, I shall do it. If the people of Utah Territory would do as they were told, they would always be safe. If the people in San
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  • ...SITION TO AND PREJUDICE AGAINST THE TRUTH—THE JUDGES AND THE DELEGATE OF UTAH—THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—POTENCY OF THE GOSPEL ...SITION TO AND PREJUDICE AGAINST THE TRUTH—THE JUDGES AND THE DELEGATE OF UTAH—THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD—POTENCY OF THE GOSPEL
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  • ...sition to and Prejudice Against the Truth—The Judges and the Delegate of Utah—The Spirit of God and the Spirit of the World—Potency of the Gospel]] .... I have also made two trips annually through the southern portions of the territory, visiting all the Branches, taking considerable time and a great deal of in
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  • ...old General Harris, and to his heirs after him. That valley over yonder—Utah Valley, belongs to old General Wolf's heirs; and there's another valley, th ...e, as a community, shall adopt; not as a county, not as the Legislature of Utah, not as civil and military officers, but as officers and members of the Chu
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  • ...sinks within him. I can find thousands of just such men and women in this territory. When they are brought to this place, they do not know their benefactors, w ...ne individual, and that is a man by the name of Thomas Green, who lives in Utah, and one young woman, who came from {{page break|326|top}} England, there h
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  • ...the South-west Corner Stone of this Temple, in Salt Lake Valley, and Utah Territory, has been laid by the Aaronic Priesthood, which is in connection with the M
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  • ...forced to the necessity of stealing it? Is there a house in this city, or territory, that will refuse a hungry person a meal of victuals, when he has not been ...here are also hundreds of persons in this city, and in other cities in the territory, who require the Bishops to help them, when at the same time they are able
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  • ...her His Saints, and we are already gathered, a great host of us, into this territory; but let me tell you this is hardly a beginning; many nations are yet to be ...nitude that it begins to be a great mountain, not merely to fill one small territory, but as Daniel said, "it became a great mountain and filled the whole earth
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  • ...ly is this fulfilled in the followers of Joe Smith, that have gone to Utah Territory; there they are in a salt and barren land, and they do not know when good c
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  • ...r immigration. They can come by thousands, and be dispersed throughout the Territory among the Saints, and find comfortable homes, and it is scarcely known and ...al operations, and pay up the debt. I reckon that six or eight thousand in Utah could act upon this principle.
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  • ...t escutcheon of their country, here in the very heart of the United States territory, surrounded by tall mountains; they consider it a dark spot in the country' ...oung says he does not know of but one old bachelor in all the Territory of Utah, and he has gone to the States; therefore I have nothing more to say on thi
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  • ...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 lis
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  • ...can see the working of the Lord, not only in our midst—not only in Utah Territory, in the midst of the people of God who assemble in this Tabernacle—it is
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  • ...least militates against us not even to our excluding common law from this Territory. I can inform our lawyers who plead at the bar here, that the Congress of t ...fice; for when the President appoints another man to be Gove[r]nor of Utah Territory, you may acknowledge that the Lord has done it, for we should acknowledge H
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  • ...reat Salt Lake in the Valleys of the Mountains, in the settlements of Utah Territory—there is Zion now. But you perceive when you come here the same covetous ...erogatory to the principles of righteousness. We can make the Territory of Utah one of greatest sinks of iniquity upon the face of the whole earth, and exc
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  • |H=UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS |T=Journal of Discourses 2: UTAH DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON—U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
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  • |<=[[../48|Utah Delegate to Washington—U.S. Government and Officers]] ...a good deal of pleasure in preaching in the different settlements of this territory, wherever I have had the opportunity of meeting with the Saints; but it is
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  • ..., referring especially to this Territory. Provo is also the County Seat of Utah County, gathering to its centre a great amount of county business, at any r ...r illustration of the necessity of Saints being united. There is a city in Utah County, by the name of Springville; in consequence of a little division whi
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  • ...Judicial District Courts of the United States, in and for the Territory of Utah. We are called upon on this solemn occasion as a Territory to mourn the loss of one who has occupied a distinguished position among us
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  • ...ty without they pay for it with their labor, if they are able. That is for Utah, not for England, France, Ireland, &c. It is plain to you that circumstance ...en fifty-six thousand dollars owing to the P. E. Fund, by brethren in this Territory; some of the debtors have run away, but the most of them are here. Can thes
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  • ...r scenes of trials to those passed through by the earlier settlers of this Territory. Should all this people here in Utah be called to pass through such scenes as some of us have been called upon t
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  • Do you suppose that I will thus far bow down to any man in this Territory, or on the earth? Do you suppose that I will suffer myself to be so muzzled ...who are among them; why I hear that they kill the wicked away up yonder in Utah." They do not kill anybody down there, do they?
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  • ...Benson, Delivered July 13, 1855, at a Conference held at Provo City, Utah Territory. ...Church. It is humbug to talk about first regulating a city, a county, or a territory; but start with a family at a time, and let the Bishop who presides see wha
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  • |H=THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE |T=Journal of Discourses 3: THE NECESSITY OF A LIVING PRIESTHOOD—THE UTAH LEGISLATURE
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  • |<=[[../26|The Necessity of a Living Priesthood—The Utah Legislature]] ...ny, and views, in relation to our visit to the capital of the Territory of Utah.
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  • ...apprised that his course was found fault with when he was in the county of Utah, and more especially while in a place called Payson. While I was in Fillmor ...om. A lawyer rose to make his plea before the jury; he took up the laws of Utah, which are strict and pointed in reference to lawyers making pleas, binding
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  • ...s have planted the Saints in the midst of the mountains, have given them a Territory and a Territorial Government, and will, ere long, give them a free and inde ...out the States and all Europe, that "Governor Young says he is Governor of Utah and will be, and that President Franklin Pierce cannot remove him from the
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  • ...concentration of the Saints from the distant nations of the earth into one Territory their numbers give them power which they never could gain in a scattered co ...at respect would it be a favor and a privilege for the inhabitants of this Territory, composed mostly of Latter-day Saints, to be organized into a free and inde
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  • ...e by President Heber C. Kimball, in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, June 29, 1856. ...n blest and multiplied this season, for I know there was not enough in the Territory to sustain the people. However, the present scarcity is one of the best thi
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