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Orson Hyde And The Carson Valley Mission, 1855-1857, Albert R. Page
Orson Hyde And The Carson Valley Mission, 1855-1857, Albert R. Page
Theses and Dissertations
The Mormon Church has for years been given credit by historians for the settlement of Carson Valley. Prior to 1854 the LDS Church actually had no connection with that valley except that it was part of the Utah Territory, which the Church controlled. When political dissension against the Mormons developed in Carson Valley, Brigham Young decided to organize the area into a county in 1854. The following year he sent Orson Hyde and other officials there to organize the county government. Within a year Hyde so influenced Young that he agreed to send 250 colonists to Carson Valley in order …