Don Wildman

Right.

Well, remember that the army comes in order to support the idea that they're going to install their own governor.

The fight is for the Mormons to be led by their own.

And that is what is negotiated because Brigham Young becomes the new governor of Utah.

I guess it gets named later on.

Territory.

Buchanan pardons the Mormons for their rebellion after they accept this U.S.

federal authority.

The leader of the—sort of the capper on this story is a guy named John Lee and his fate.

Yeah.

He's the leader of the Nauvoo Legion.

John Lee is the only one charged with murder after that Mountain Meadows massacre and was executed years later.

Even Brigham Young has given this guy up.

The time has come when they will try John D. Lee and not the Mormon church, and that's what we have always wanted.

So at that point, they have really secured their place in this place they call Deseret, but is going to be renamed Utah.

And after this break coming up, we will come back and talk about, after the rebellion concludes, how Mormonism in Utah eventually settles into American life.

Okay, we're back discussing the Mormons.

After the violence of the rebellion ends, we're in still pre-Civil War, really, aren't we, Peter?

Which I imagine has really changed the whole calculus of this situation.

1861, when that begins, a lot that had to do with Utah, in effect, gets eclipsed by what's happening back East.