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Carl Carmer

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A site for a proposed hydroelectric project also was the site of a grim Revolutionary War battle.
When Brigham Young’s party abandoned Illinois to seek a final refuge for the Latter-day Saints, none knew where they would come to rest. But as they entered Salt Lake Valley, they were sure that the long quest was over
Of sensitive, mystical Joseph Smith, of a heavenly visitor and a buried scripture, and of the founding of a new religion destined to enlist many followers and carve from the desert a new Zion
The Mormons grow in numbers, but persecution makes them wanderers. Then a burst of violence results in
Over 350 years a mighty pageant of history has moved through the myth-haunted valley of the “Great River of the Mountains”