Don Wildman

territory after we win that war, and the Treaty of Hildago gives us that massive amount of land in the West.

Congress creates the Utah Territory as part of the Compromise of 1850.

All right, so that sets the stage for all of what we're about to talk about.

Yes.

Brought 1850s.

Yeah.

By this time, as you have completely explained to us, there is good reason why these Mormons should be circling their wagons.

And they are very worried about what's coming next.

Was Utah in their crosshairs or that area in the crosshairs that far west as they made their migration?

Not necessarily.

Wouldn't it be cool to do a PhD thesis on apocalyptic thinking historically throughout all of American history?

Because, boy, that's a big part of the mid 19th century.

I mean, you've got the Mormons, you've got the whole South is thinking about themselves as apart from this.

And that's a very religious world down there.

It's just got to be boiled into the into the fat of America, isn't it?

It was named the state of Deseret.

Am I getting that pronunciation correct?

I believe you are correct.

Okay.

And Deseret translates, I guess, probably loosely into by honeybee, like those brought by the original Jaredites from Jerusalem.