Show -- 3- socond western BTho naneuver on with the Mormons and 8 The land and sea latter was a The phase moot coordinated clearly associated their occupation of the west was in connection with the land forces under Captain Kearney A march from Fort Leavenworth Kansas to California was to bo '7hile on his march Kearney received into his force a battalion of Mormon soldiers It is necessary to understand precisely why the Mormon soldiers were not made by Kearney enrolled at the beginning of Kearney’s march Early in the decade lgitO-5- 0 the Mormons had settled at Independence and Far West Missouri But after a time the gentiles there forced them to leave probably because of their anti-soci- al beliefs They therefore migrated to Nauvoo Illinois Life in Nauvoo was quite as intolerable ns in Missouri because the gentiles hex’e evinced the same feelings and actions as in Missouri In consequence of such The attitudes the found some year again decided upon a migration sixteen thousand Mormons from Mormons other nlaces congregated on the Missouri river k near Council Bluffs Iowa 'while encamped hero waiting for concerted action one J C Little from New Hampshire Nauvoo and had on June 3 1£&5 called on President Polk to ascertain Allan -Levins Fremont the 'Vest’s Greatest venturer (Her- York: Harper and Brothers TysSTT p |