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The Star-Spangled Banner Forever Be Furled: The Mormon Exodus As Liberty, Richard Bennett
The Star-Spangled Banner Forever Be Furled: The Mormon Exodus As Liberty, Richard Bennett
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You wanted to know what we waited to move for, wrote Sidney Tanner, an early Mormon pioneer, to his family in the East. "It was to go to a land of freedom where we could enjoy the peace of society and our liberty. We did not want to live in a country where there was no peace, no liberty and its citizens [were] not allowed their rights." So much has been written about the Mormon Trail that one wonders if there is anything of consequence to be said. Surely all the prominent details are well known. And were it not …