DeathFlowerKing wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Firing squad is actually still an option in Utah.
I know, and Utah was also where the Mormon religion was founded I think?
NO. No. No.
It was where the Mormons
ended up.
Joseph Smith founded the relgion in New England. It spread through the east. But the relgion got persecuted. And the geographic center of gravity gradually moved west to the Mississippi, and the state of Illinois. But they still got persecuted.
Finnally Brigham young lead them on an epic migration across the whole unsettled west- to the empty wilderness of Utah (which actually belonged to Mexico in that pre Mexican War time), and that where they settled. They tried growing crops, but then locusts attacked their crops, but...then a big swarm of sea gulls attacked the locusts and saved their asses in a Biblical style miracle that is still commemorated in a statue of a flock of sea gulls today in Salt Lake City.
Free to run their own region they survived and thats how Utah became the core of Mormonism, and became mostly Mormon til this day.
There was constant tension with Washington -as the rest of the West got settled by Americans in the post Mexican War era- especially over Polygamy. But finnally in the late 19th Century the Mormons caved to abolishing polygamy. Except for the fanatical rogue communities that still practice it in outlying areas even today.
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