Item Detail
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27002
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English
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Brigham Young's "All the People" Quote Quandary
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Western Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2015
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46
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2
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Logan, UT
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Oxford University Press
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219-223
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On 25 July 1847, Brigham Young reportedly proclaimed, "There shall be no private ownership of the streams that come out of the canyons, nor the timber that grows on the hills. These belong to the people: all the people." Writers and researchers have used this quote to validate their arguments about communalism in the LDS Church. Sara Dant examines the source of this quote and finds that it is likely synthesized from Young's basic ideas and land ethic.