Item Detail
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19879
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English
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Slouching Towards Slaterville : Joseph Morris's Wide Swath in Weber County
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2008
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76
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no.3
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247-264
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Joseph Morris, an English convert to Mormonism, came to Utah in 1853. Always "visionary and flighty in mind," perhaps because of prior injuries in the English coal mines, he was unable to support himself and lived nomadically in various Utah cities before moving to Slaterville in Weber County Utah. Here he began claiming revelation that the Mormon Church and its leadership were corrupt, and that he should be the new leader of the church. Many of his followers had been active members of the Mormon Church, and the Morrisite movement in fact retained most Mormon religious practices. Holley argues that the Morrisite movement, at least for its followers, grew out of their frustration with the lack of avenues for political dissent in theocratic Utah.
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