History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . State troops and miners at Briceville, Tenn. on threat of death, to order a refused. A larger force soon arrived,routed the rioters, and rescued the year 1891 formed a crisis in the his-tory of Mormonism in America. For along time after their settlement in the iSgo] EVENTS OF HARRISONS TERM 89 Great American Desert, as it was thencalled, Mormons repudiated United Statesauthority. Gentile pioneers and recreantsaints they dealt with summarily, witness theMountain Meadow massacre of 1
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . State troops and miners at Briceville, Tenn. on threat of death, to order a refused. A larger force soon arrived,routed the rioters, and rescued the year 1891 formed a crisis in the his-tory of Mormonism in America. For along time after their settlement in the iSgo] EVENTS OF HARRISONS TERM 89 Great American Desert, as it was thencalled, Mormons repudiated United Statesauthority. Gentile pioneers and recreantsaints they dealt with summarily, witness theMountain Meadow massacre of 1857, where. The Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City. 120 victims were murdered in cold bloodafter surrendering their arms. Anti-polygamy bills were introduced inCongress in 1855 and 1859. In 1862 sucha bill was made law. Seven years later theenforcement of it became possible by thebuilding of a trans-continental railroad and 90 EXPANSION [1891 the influx of gentiles drawn by the discoveryof precious metals in Utah. In 1874 thePoland Act, and in 1882 the Edmunds Act,introduced reforms. Criminal law was nowmuch more efficiently executed against Mor-mons. In 1891 the Mormon officials pledgedtheir churchs obedience to the laws againstplural marriages and unlawful was quick and generous in herresponse to the famine cry that in 1891 rosefrom 30,000,000 people in Russia. Over adomain of nearly a half million square milesin that land there was no cow or goat formilk, nor a horse left strong enough to drawa hearse. Old grain stores were exhausted,crops a failure, and land a waste. Typhus,
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