Nauvoo Polygamy...But We Called It Celestial Marriage by Smith George D

Author:Smith, George D. [Smith, George D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781560852070
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2013-11-24T06:00:00+00:00

Young was named president of the LDS Church on December 5, 1847, near Winter Quarters, where he had returned after investigating the Salt Lake Valley.[103] Colonization had been delayed through the winter of 1846 by the selection and organization of troops to march on Mexico. In the spring of 1847, a team of 159 pioneers in 72 wagons progressed westward from Winter Quarters, about ten miles a day. The group followed the Oregon trail along the Platte River through Nebraska and by the Sweetwater River in Wyoming, eventually reaching the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 22. Away from Brigham Young’s leadership, Brannan’s California Saints would resist the polygamous emphasis of the Utah Saints. The original pioneer company in Utah included only three females, but these hardy three happened to be Young’s plural wife Clara Decker; her mother, Harriet—the plural wife of Brigham’s brother Lorenzo; and Heber Kimball’s plural wife Ellen. Most of the men in the company turned back after spending only a month in the valley, to reunite with their families in Winter Quarters. The substantial migration proceeded in 1848.

With some 5,000 settlers in the City of the Great Salt Lake by March 1849, Young decided to form a provisional government for an area comprising present-day Utah; most of Arizona and Nevada; large portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming; and parts of Idaho, Oregon, and even a part of the Pacific coast on either side of Baja California. He called this sprawling territory Deseret, which was said to mean “honeybee.”[104]

Mormons brought about 100 black slaves with them to Deseret, representing two percent of the total population, from 1847 to 1850. Even more slaves arrived with the so-called “Southern Saints” Young sent to the San Luis Valley in Colorado, north of Santa Fe. Slavery and polygamy formed a witch’s brew that isolated Deseret from the rest of the U.S. through its territorial period to the 1890s.[105]

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