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Show a definite Joseph th himself had made turned to his martyrdom. would Mormons the that earlier stil (1842) prophecy sometwo years mat the to explain Is it possible be drive to the Rocky Mountains. involved in the supernatural aspect? ter without becoming somewhat Saints came to the Great Basin the that Latte-day asserted It has been Lone because they were driven "in the tops of the mountains" nota because it was their "destiny"- there by force of circumstances; in in the Restoration of the Gospel they had to work out problems not would of Times", that they this "Dispensation of the Fullness have found the Mississippi Valley, even had they have worked out in b\,tt peace there. had arrived in the Great Salt Of course, as soon as the Saints to the northward and Lake Valley;; t tey began spreading especially had not favored general tte so u thward; and a1 though Brigham Young Pacific the Coast, in leas thaD two' settlement of his people on emriaicned t 1 appears; that he had of tho Pionee!'; 'years after anival II meaning the honey-bee, from the prodigious state of Deseret" ("Deseret" Divide at the head Beginning on the Continental the Bbok of Mormon). thence is now southwestern New Mexico, waters of :the Gila River, in what drai nage of the Shake River 'this divide until it came to the following divide between low Hole; thence following the comparatively Great the Basinpntil it came to the Shake River drainage and that of thence following the Sier Tahoa: ; the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake thence east of north of Santa Barbara; ras until perhaps a little trence Los abo Angeles; coast south until it came to the Pacific San Diego; beyond Mexican boundary the along the Pacific coast to to the COlorado River near thence following the Mexic:an boundary near Jackson to its source at the Continental up the Gila River (At that time the Gila River was Divide---the point of beginning. the southern boundary of the United States). Yuma; thence of the Great State of This seemingly somewhat grandiose plan It raising. Deseret may hae caused some congressional eyebrow Great the of part included all of the useable as seen above lorado River the of area large the of drainage and all Basin not I do profess states that was then within the United States. have proved not if the plan would manship; buy I am wondering made when been ve a "state" could, ha prctical, if admission as time may ha ve the at Mormon population The total asked for in 1849. the Mormonsbegan when of Nauvoo been no greater than was that of the City future were the but their plans for evacuating it in February, 1846, both from rapidly was increasing ver.y expansive, and population the way to The Mormons, on States. Europe and the eastern United somewhat HeX. showing themselves in the Great Basin were Utah and the helieve did not masterful in handling the native people---they is a dead Indf.an", statement that "the only good Indian the from the mobs and militia ot Illinois, Even in their flight Mormons manifested no desire for II secession" or sepgnda separation Church leaders had Before leavtng Nauvoo, under the desire to their organize a civil government expressed was written, August United States; and the President, James K. Polk, Battalion from Mormon after the departure of the a few from the United states. 6, 1846, days encampments were on settled in the Great Statt!s British, for a they (the Mormons) River, that "as soon the United wouldetition they Basia, the north by the government, Itboundd on Mexican dominions, and east and west b.y the Missouri territorial and south by tte as |
