Don Wildman

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First, it's clouds of dust, thin, far away.

Then, on the horizon, a line takes shape.

Wagons, uniforms, cavalry.

An army with a mission.

The United States is coming.

In Salt Lake City, Brigham Young gives the order, no pitched battles, no glorious stand.

Scorch the grass, empty the outposts, scatter the herds.

This army must march into a void.

Better to destroy Zion than to surrender it.

This is no rebellion of the standard variety, more like a noose tightening on these troops.

Begging the question, whose land is this?

Those who came to build a kingdom?

Or the nation they left behind, now marching to claim it as theirs?

The Mormon Rebellion is about to begin.

I'm Don Wildman, and this is American History Hit.