Don Wildman

U.S.

President James Buchanan sends federal troops over to Utah to install a new government.

He ousts them.

Yeah, of the entire army is sent out there.

This is a very important and pressing issue.

In anticipation of this arrival, the Mormons prepare for defense.

They're evacuation of Mormon settlements.

They kind of practice a scorched earth policy of burning out grassy areas so there's nowhere for these horses to graze.

They will target U.S.

supply lines.

And as mentioned before, there's no major pitched battles here.

It's just kind of an ongoing practice of let's starve these guys out so they'll turn around and go home.

There is heavy-duty bloodshed in one event.

It's called the Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857.

Members of a Mormon militia known as the Nauvoo Legion and local participants kill dozens of immigrants passing through Utah.

Yeah.

There was a great series on this, a sort of mini series last year on, I think it was Netflix, where they, it's called American Primeval.

I mean, they at least cast this in an insanely violent tone.

It was really heavy duty.

Yeah.