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   Mormon pioneers

   For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses." ... Almost immediately, Brigham Young sent out scouting parties to identify and claim additional community sites.
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   Brigham Young

   Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular being "American Moses," (alternatively the "Modern Moses" or the "Mormon Moses") because, like the Biblical figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an exodus through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land. ... ↑ "Brigham Young Biography".
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   Investigations and prosecutions relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre

   And when Brigham Young sent his report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1858, he said the massacre was the work of Native Americans. ... | Haun's Mill massacre · Mormon pioneers Paiutes · Kingdom of God (LDS) · Utah War Blood atonement · Plural marriage |
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   History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   The groups that left Illinois for Utah became known as the Mormon Pioneers and forged a path to Salt Lake City known as the Mormon Trail. ... 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.
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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. ... Walker, Ronald W. and Doris R. Dant, editors, "Nearly Everything Imaginable: the Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers."
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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. ... Salt Lake City: International Society Daughters Utah Pioneers, 1994.
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   Utah War

   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. ... July 24, 1847: Mormon Pioneers found Salt Lake City as the first city of the Deseret.
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   Mormon handcart pioneers

   With leaders all the way up to Brigham Young, there was mismanagement." ... Notable handcart pioneers
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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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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas

    Brigham Young sent several missionaries to preach in Texas in the 1850s.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Mormon pioneers,
• Brigham Young,
• Investigations and prosecutions relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre,
• History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
• Mormon Reformation,
• Mormon Battalion,
• Utah War,
• Mormon handcart pioneers,
• Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church),
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Texas