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The larger chain of Mormon settlements, ranging from Canada to Mexico, were initially established as agricultural centers or to gain access to metals and other materials needed by the expanding Mormon population. The communities also served as waystations for migration and trade centered on Salt Lake City during the mid to late 19th century.
Settlement and growth of the Gila Valley in Graham county as a Mormon colony, 1879–1900 (M.A. thesis). Dept. of History, University of Arizona. OCLC 28230204. Young, Valerie P. (2005). The "Honeymoon Trail": link to community and a sense of place in the Little Colorado River settlements of Arizona, 1877–1927 (M.S. thesis). Utah State ...
Mormon Island State Recreation Area, Hall County, Nebraska; Mormon Lake, Arizona, an intermittent lake named after pioneers. Gives its name to the settlement of Mormon Lake, Arizona. Mormon Mill, Burnet County, Texas; Mormon Mountains, Nevada, including Mormon Peak (Nevada) and the East Mormon Mountains
The settlement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding area was achieved through moving from settlement to settlement until they made a permanent home in the Great Basin of the Rocky Mountains. In 1847, they trekked en masse across the great plains of the United States until they ...
On July 26, 1953, Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle sent troops into the settlement to stop polygamy in what became known as the Short Creek raid. The two-year legal battle that followed became a public relations disaster that damaged Pyle's political career and set a hands-off tone toward the town in Arizona for the next 50 years.
A Mormon leader first asked permission for members of the persecuted faith to settle in Texas in 1844. There were 28 Mormons in Fort Worth in 1920. Soon they will build a 30,000-square-foot temple
The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.
Other prominent Mormon Republicans emerged for Harris, too, such as former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. While he hasn’t formally endorsed Harris, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is a vocal opponent of Trump.