. The Rocky Mountain saints : a full and complete history of the Mormons, from the first vision of Joseph Smith to the last courtship of Brigham Young; including the story of the hand-cart emigration - the Mormon war - the Mountain-Meadow massacre - the reign of terror in Utah - the doctrine of human sacrifice - the political, domestic, social, and theological influences of the saints - the facts of polygamy - the colonization of the Rocky Mountains, and the development of the great mineral wealth of the Territory of Utah. ka woreawarinini^ with men engaged in building dry atone wuUb ae a • Dt
. The Rocky Mountain saints : a full and complete history of the Mormons, from the first vision of Joseph Smith to the last courtship of Brigham Young; including the story of the hand-cart emigration - the Mormon war - the Mountain-Meadow massacre - the reign of terror in Utah - the doctrine of human sacrifice - the political, domestic, social, and theological influences of the saints - the facts of polygamy - the colonization of the Rocky Mountains, and the development of the great mineral wealth of the Territory of Utah. ka woreawarinini^ with men engaged in building dry atone wuUb ae a • DtMcrH yexps, Novoiuber 18. 1857. THE BULWARKS OF ZION. 3C3 protection for tlio rincinen, and on tlic ftlopin^ bitles of thewofetcrn nHUintuinri tronclieb wero duf^ ior tlio bunie the cjitit hide, at tlio hiiHo ot tlio ovorhiingin«j; ntountuinB,wuB tlio ortlinuiy road throii«4h tho curtt>n. ihe MormonenginocTri had ccuiritruotod t of tho road, ainong tlie wil-loWB and herid)-t rct!h, ho tlnit tho army would h«.; toifctl to tukutho oaHt biiio of tho oailon, whoro tho JSaintci woro pn^parod ft>rthoin. On tho t>vorhanging rookn largo qinintitioH of honlders an<ImaHsori of rocks wore placutd, ao that, an tho arn»y paritioil by, aHinall hivorago wiMdd ho anjply Hulliciont to hail them downupon the htildierri. It may ho hartlly fair to smile at this prim-itive arrangement, hot in these dayn of rifles and long-rango. Echu CaAoo—Tba Monnon Dofenoe*. flhells the critical unbeliever can hardly refrain from compar-ing Rucrh dofonsivo operations to tlie procesH of <^;atching birds* by putting salt on their tails I As t)»e traveller in tho Inxii-riou8 l*ullmai» of the Union Pacific Railroad f)asBe8 throughthat canon to-tlay, it is edilying to raise the eyes and ace stillstanding tho dry stone walla—tho * bulwarks of Zion. Tho officers of tho invading army had little conceptionof the imj)ortanr,e of their missi^)!!, and were taken by surprisewlien, f
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