theocracy in Utah." Congress would refuse the Utah Territory's applications for statehood ... bound wagon train at Mountain Meadow in fall 1857, public opinion regarding the church deteriorated.

A party of sixteen persons came in as the same time. At the time of their departure, everything was quiet in Utah Territory. Preparations were making to send, in a hand-car to the Seates ...

The stage was set for a dramatic clash between federal troops and Young’s territorial militia—when a large wagon train from Arkansas rolled through Utah Territory in August 1857.

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