Item Detail
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English
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Far from Zion : The Frayed Ties between California's Gold Rush Saints and LDS President Brigham Young
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California History
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4
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Oakland, CA
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University of California Press
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5-57
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First arriving in California at the outset of the U.S. war with Mexico, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), familiarly known as Mormons, believed that the church's spiritual and temporal headquarters, the Mormon Zion, soon would move to the Pacific Coast. Under Brigham Young's leadership, they anticipated, the main body of LDS faithful, who had recently fled from Nauvoo - the embattled former LDS capital in western Illinois - before long would leave their temporary winter encampments along the Missouri River and trek overland to join them in California. [From the text]
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