How did a stolen shirt turn a mission to the Native Americans into two decades of war? What would Utah history have looked like if the Saints and the Utes had treated sharing and consecration as a conversation instead of a one-way religious task?
How did a stolen shirt turn a mission to the Native Americans into two decades of war?
What would Utah history have looked like if the Saints and the Utes had treated sharing and consecration as a conversation instead of a one-way religious task?
A relatively peaceful first two years in the Salt Lake Valley—which at the time was a buffer zone between Native American tribes—gave way to armed conflict as settlement pushed into Utah Valley.
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How did a stolen shirt turn a mission to the Native Americans into two decades of war? What would Utah history have looked like if the Saints and the Utes had treated sharing and consecration as a conversation instead of a one-way religious task? A relatively peaceful first two years in the Salt Lake Valley—which at the time was a buffer zone between Native American tribes—gave way to armed conflict as settlement pushed into Utah Valley.
The Utes demanded the perpetrator be handed over. Wells and a few hundred Nauvoo Legion men south.
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