Show 11- - after a year of July 16 1S47 service In the array of the United States the mustering out of the Battalion was completed In the dispersion of the group several of those discharged returned east by way of the Kearney route while others tool: Fremont's trail to the north One company in the service Those who went north received word while stopping at Sutter's Fort about the settlement by Brighan Young in Utah Why Brigham Young took hi3 followers to Utah instead of Oregon is a much discussed and debatable topic The most commonly accepted theory is that Fremont's enthusiastic account of the lako and the suitability for settlement of oountry by civilians led Young to make such a surrounding 23 choice Others feel that Young knew the oountry would be isolated for 3ome time to come and during that tine he At Ban Diego on re-enlis- ted might strengthen the Mormon cause making it so powerful a force that none would dare deny then its principles There was also the commonly accepted legend amoncr the mormons 21 Ho that Utah was in many ways similar to the Holy Land P Frank 235 20 '21 A Holder Allan Bevins op The March of the Mormon clt p Battalion 157 Frederick 3 PeXllngaugh Oroaltln? the Flldnrnogg (Chicago: C p Putnanfs Sons 1So3)V PP 3033 |