Show 1-0- groat deal of the preliminary issues Missouri to San Diego summed up as follows: A space and time has been devoted to of the Mormon Battalion's march from but the significant facts night be (l) The Mormons were anxiously seek hones in peace ing a place where they night live and make (2) Incidental to marching across the Southwest many favorable sites had been located outside those they already knew of from reading Fremont's laudatory comments on the IS Great Salt Lake country (3) All the Indian tribes presented a splendid opportunity for future missionary work of the valleys were fertile and water was plentiful for irrigation purposes (5) The territory which they crossed from Santa Fe to the Salt River valley (!) Many afford many ideal canotuarieo for tiny paradises Uppermost in the minds of the Uoraon soldiers was the treatment they had received at the hands of the gentiles back in Missouri and Illinois The members of the sect would felt that the frontier would be more democratic but much to their disappointment the frontier had offered them the opposition and ridicule such as was met with in their former homes The Mormons were suffering from a phobia of martyrdom the feeling that they were unjustly persecuted resulted in their anti-soci- al characteristics Allan Bevins on clt p WBWWWBB 115 |