Why the U.S. Army Occupied Utah | Mormon History

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This is the second episode about Mormon history. This episode will cover how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or LDS ended up in the Great Basin and their conflict with the federal government that culminated in the Utah War. Mormon theocracy, polygamy, and rhetoric about blood atonement would bring the Army to remove Brigham Young as governor. This is the story of the buildup to the Utah War, but it begins before the Mormon exodus.
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14.13 Taylor was POTUS from 1849-1850, that was Polk's time carried over (thx MatthewTheWanderer)
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Bibliography
Polly Aird, “‘You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out’: Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s,” Journal of Mormon History 30, no. 2 (2004): 129-207.

Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith (Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press, 2019). https://amzn.to/4bwUFtg

Peter Decker, The Utes Must Go!  American Expansion and the Removal of a People (Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004). https://amzn.to/41pb0eU

History Of Utah’s American Indians, ed. Forrest S. Cuch (Salt Lake City: Utah State Division of Indian Affairs, 2003). https://amzn.to/3ViiehO

Michael S. Durham, Desert Between the Mountains: Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869 (New York: Henry Holt, 1997). https://amzn.to/3VIV06d

William P. MacKinnon, “Epilogue to the Utah War: Impact and Legacy,” Journal of Mormon History 29, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 186-248.
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Benjamin E. Park, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2024). https://amzn.to/4bQWDnJ

Brent M. Rogers, Unpopular Sovereignty: Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017). https://amzn.to/3z4YQOi

John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2012). https://amzn.to/3Xeqzpi

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0:00 vignette
0:29 intro
1:25 Praesidus
3:36 succession crisis
6:54 exodus
9:30 imperium in imperio
12:43 territory not statehood
14:11 federal officials
16:24 Walker War
19:00 blood atonement
20:51 Steptoe
22:00 twin relics of barbarism
23:38 reformation
28:58 Utah War origin
32:10 outtakes