In 1849 Elder Parley P. Pratt, the great-great-grandfather of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, led the first Mormons into southwestern Utah, describing it as “a country…turned inside out, upside down, by terrible convulsions in some former age.” On October 6, 1861, Brigham Young called 300 Mormon families on the Cotton Mission—a church-led effort to settle the …
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