Mormon Country Turquoise Not only have Young’s biographers

Not only have Young’s biographers ignored or minimized this tragic and preventable event

A Tapestry of Time and Terrain

Rebecca Molinari

from winding canyons carved by ancient waterways to expansive mesas offering panoramic vistas

With sculpted sand dunes

Mormon Country Turquoise Not only have Young’s biographersWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their lovely Deseret, a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed