Charles McCollum: 'Had Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young not deemed this 'the place' in 1847, what would this place on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains be like today?'
Joseph Smith, left, and Brigham Young, the first two leaders of the Latter-day Saint faith.Here’s a heck of a big what if: Had Latter-day Saint leader Brigham Young not deemed this “the place” in 1847, what would this place on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains be like today?
With a large percentage of the population belonging to a famously straight-laced church, Utah is rarely accused of being hip, cool or trendy — quite unlike neighboring Colorado, which Utah might well resemble in the alternative timeline we’re theorizing about here. The impact of this “peculiar” religion on Utah and the entire region has, of course, been monumental, shaping early settlement, development, legislation, education, neighbor relations and much more, but somehow for outsiders the strict liquor laws have always garnered most of the attention. Well, that and polygamy.
Finding your way around would be quite different in these parts had Brigham Young and his followers looked elsewhere to escape persecution and create a new society. Using Joseph Smith’s “City of Zion” concept, Young had Utah’s newly settled towns laid out on a grid system that assigned numbers instead of names to most of the streets, resulting in some very intimidating addresses, like 3000 W. 8935 South.
After Joseph Smith’s 1844 murder by a mob in Illinois, the fate of the Latter-day Saints could have taken any number of turns, and it actually did. Though Young managed to marshal the most followers and eventually migrate west, other factions went other directions, both theologically and geographically.
Strang’s story is a complex and sordid saga that anyone interested in Mormon history should read up on, but the bottom line is that he was shot and killed by sect malcontents after reportedly having one of his followers flogged for committing adultery.
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