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Episode 170: The Railroad Comes to Town

Brigham Young wanted the railroad badly, right up until it threatened to destroy the isolation that made Mormon Utah possible. This week, Lindsay Hansen Park and Bryan Buchanan dig into the chaotic arrival of the transcontinental railroad, where unpaid Mormon laborers, corporate brinkmanship, ZCMI boycotts, excommunications, Chinese railroad workers, and a very angry Brigham Young …

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