The government offered to award them with terrain in Utah and Nevada where they could freely live according to their religion”.
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Hey what about the story that their mormon god gave them the land ???
The mormon soldiers were men from the handcart companies that Brigham Young ordered to go with the US Army...
The men had to desert their families in the snow with nobody to help them...
The US government paid the soldiers and Brigham Young pocketed the money which should have gone to support the wives and children...