Item Detail
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7715
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6
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English
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'Are You That Damned Presbyterian Devil?' The Evolution of an Anti-Mormon Story
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1995
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21
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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80-105
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Duncan J. McMillan came to Utah in 1875 as a Presbyterian missionary. He went to Mount Pleasant where he organized a church and established a school. In June 1875, Brigham Young visited Mount Pleasant during an extended tour of Mormon settlements in Utah. During a talk, he made some remarks about the denominational school in Mount Pleasant and its Presbyterian schoolmaster. This incident provided the basis for numerous anti-Mormon tales. The author reviews how the McMillan-Young episode was embellished, expanded, and exported by the popular press. He traces this incident back to the earliest eyewitness accounts to show the literary evolution of an incident that became a widely disseminated staple of anti-Mormon literature.
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