The WILD Story of How the Mormons Created Utah
Mormons established a highly organized, theocratic society in the Mexican mountains (later U.S. territory) using a grid layout centered around temples, adopting the beehive ('Deseret') as a symbol of industrious cooperattakeawayA split occurred where mainstream Mormons complied with the ban, while fundamentalists formed the FLDS church, continuing polygamy in insular communities.takeaway“The government could argue... that these temples where Mormons get married were being used to break the law because they were being used to marry men to multiple women, which was now a felony under the law.”quote
