Item Detail
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30293
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English
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Mormon-Catholic Relations in Utah History : A Sketch
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2018
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51
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2
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Journal
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61-84
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One of the happy surprises that makes history so interesting is the fact
that Utah ever became Mormon Country, for during the roughly one
hundred years before 1847 it had been, if anything, Catholic Country.
Catholic explorers, soldiers, fur trappers, and traders had repeatedly
plied their trades back and forth through the territory. Brigham Young
University historian Ted J. Warner offers an intriguing speculation as
to what might have happened if the Franciscan friars Dominguez and
Escalante had been able to fulfill their promise to the Indians at Utah
Lake that they would return and establish a mission among them.1
If
they had, when Brigham Young started looking for a place no one else
wanted where he could bring the Latter-day Saints, he would have seen
a thriving Catholic community in Utah and perhaps turned his gaze
elsewhere, to Mexico, Texas, or somewhere else. But of course, for various reasons, they did not, and so the friars became one more entry in
the long list of transient Utah Catholics. By 1866, when the Catholics
made their first attempt at a permanent institutional presence in Utah,
the territory had for almost two decades become home to a large and well-entrenched Mormon population. The Catholics would henceforth never become more than a tiny minority in Mormon Country,
and getting along with their numerous Mormon neighbors became an
imperative priority. That imperative has occupied a very large part of
Utah Catholic history.
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The Gentile Comes to Utah : A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)