Professor Peter Coviello

immigrants is a different question.

He will not be tried, but a different Mormon will be.

They are in league with some Paiutes in the area.

They clumsily attempt to blame it on the Paiutes.

Oh, we didn't kill these immigrants.

It was an Indian massacre.

That's exposed in the next year.

So of course, the Mormons think of emigrants as passageways for the state to get at them.

And so they mistrust them violently.

And when they murder these people, the state is like, okay, these are now, this is a party of people in bloody rebellion.

And that's, I mean-

Brigham is not shy about saying the federal agents who've come here and maligned our civilization should have been hung in the streets.

He just says things like that.

You know what I mean?

Right.

And so Buchanan is not exactly wrong.

On the other hand, he did send a third of the federal army out, presumably to destroy a religious sect in the West.

Right.

For erotic practices that they didn't really believe in in back East.

I think that's right, though it is also the case that polygamy was such a violation.