Professor Peter Coviello
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He does.
Which is an amazing – I remember when I was reading that, I was like – I don't know, 2,500, 3,000 troops or something like that.
But that's like a third of the standing army.
It goes to Utah.
And what Buchanan will say in Washington, D.C.
is that Brigham Young is in open rebellion against the United States of America.
And Brigham Young will say Buchanan is fighting a war of extermination.
He wants a war of extermination.
And in a certain way, both of them are correct.
They're right.
Both of them pretty near on to right, so it looks very much like that's going to happen.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre happens, which inflames things gravely.
This is a really hairy thing, isn't it?
Tremendously so.
Tremendously so.
There's much contestation in the historiography.
Did Jung say he certainly, the rhetoric and discourse around the area was definitely coming from Jung and it was definitely bloody and intent.
Whether or not he authorized the actual attack on all of the