Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Fowler's King's English The King James
Bible Brewer's Phrase & Fable Frazer's Golden Bough Shelf of
Fiction Later National Literature, Part II Travellers and
Explorers, 18461900 > The Mormons INDEX OF ALL CHAPTERS The
Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18
Volumes VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.
Travellers and Explorers, 18461900 § 10. The Mormons. While the
conquest of California was proceeding to its logical end an
agricultural conquest of the valley of the Great Salt Lake was
begun by the Mormons, or Latter Day Saints as they called
themselves. Their late neighbours in Illinois had inaugurated
such great opposition to Mormon methods that it culminated in
the murder, by a mob, in Carthage jail, of Joseph Smith, the
prophet and originator of the sect, and a migration was
imperative. The Mormons now possessed a martyr, the essential
basis of religious success, and they needed an independent field
for expansion. Their new leader, Brigham Young, disco