Don Wildman
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I mentioned before that we've been here before, according to the Mormons, and that was an early tribe.
Yeah, the Book of Mormon says these guys, the Jaredites, quite literally after a guy named Jared,
And they had brought with them honeybees, which had, I guess, propagated and become, you know, spread around North America.
And a symbol of industriousness.
Yes, exactly.
Good for them.
Productivity and indomitability.
And little tiny cubicles.
But a year later, Utah becomes a U.S.
territory in 1850, as I mentioned, because of the Mexican-American War victory.
At that point, federal oversight in the area begins.
That's got to be an ominous note for the Mormons.
Very fraught.
Very fraught.
Trouble is brewing.
The Mormon rebellion that we're really talking about in this is not a war in a traditional sense.
It's more of an ongoing standoff over sovereignty, right?