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   Investigations and prosecutions relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre

   In an early federal investigation of the massacre, two Paiute chiefs named Jackson and Touche said that Brigham Young sent a letter to at least two Paiute bands that the Fancher-Baker party was to be killed, and that the letter was brought by Dimick B. Huntington.
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   Brigham Young

   Appleby had sent the letter to Young at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, but Young was actually in Utah, and therefore did not receive Appleby's missive until the first of December 1847, when he returned to Winter Quarters. ... —— (1974). in Dean C. Jessee.: Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons.
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   History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   As a result, Brigham Young sent emissaries to Washington, D.C. with a proposal to create a vast State of Deseret, of which Young would naturally be the first governor. ... Some Mormon apologists including Apostle Dallin H. Oaks suggested that the letter used the idea of a salamander as a metaphor for an angel.
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   Mormon pioneers

   Almost immediately, Brigham Young sent out scouting parties to identify and claim additional community sites. ... Notes
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   Mormon Reformation

   During this period in the 1850s, President Brigham Young sent his counselor Jedediah M. Grant and other church leaders to preach to the people in Utah and surrounding Mormon communities and inspire them to reject sin and turn towards spiritual things.
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   Mormon Battalion

   Brigham Young, the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, sent Elder Jesse C. Little to Washington, D.C. to seek assistance from the federal government for the Mormon trek west. ... Young wrote a letter justifying the call-up to the Saints living in Garden Grove:
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   Adam–God theory

   That first man sent his own Son to redeem the world.". ... Young, Brigham; Kimball, Heber C. & Richards, Willard (June 1 1853), "Letter from the First Presidency", in Watt, G.D., Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others, 1, Liverpool: F.D. & S.W. Richards, 1854, pp. 6, < http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9599> .
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   Utah War

   Van Vliet carried a letter to Young from General Harney and he was ordered to make arrangements for the citizens of Utah to accommodate and supply the troops once they arrived. ... On November 21, Cumming sent a proclamation to the citizens of Utah declaring them to be in rebellion, and soon after, a grand jury was formed at Camp Scott which indicted two Mormon prisoners, Brigham Young, and over sixty other members of the Mormon hierarchy for treason.
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   Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)

   Also the first occasion where Brigham Young was formally sustained President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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    War hysteria preceding the Mountain Meadows massacre

    ↑ Smith 1875; Hamblin 1876 (Smith was sent to represent "Young's mind" that Mormons "save everything like breadstuff, and use it when we wanted it"); Lee 1877, pp. 221–22(quoting Smith as saying, "I have been sent down here by the old Boss, Brigham Young, to instruct the bretheren of the different settlements not to sell any of their grain to our enemies. ... Washington Post review and Letter to the editor in response to the review.

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• Adam–God theory,
• Utah War,
• Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church),
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