Item Detail
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8793
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English
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'What Virtue There is in Stone' and Other Pungent Talk on the Early Utah Frontier
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 1991
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59
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300-319
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Church leaders in pioneer Utah often used different and interesting forms of language and speech in regards to communicating policy regarding and conflict with Indians in the early 1850s. In this essay, he examines some of the language of those times and the effect, or lack of impact, which those communications had on the audience being addressed. The language included strong counsel, colorful rhetoric, dark humor, euphemisms, and hard-sounding tough talk. He examines the disparity between atrocities and actions taken against Indians and the report of same when recorded in the public historical record. Brigham Young's counsel for outlying settlements to gather into stockaded forts and take measures to guard livestock was commonly ignored. Communications and reports illustrate the way Church leaders often used a heavy hand to force compliance with Pres. Young's directions.
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