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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Episode 148: The Gathering
Mormonism has always dreamed big and in this episode, we dive into one of its boldest and most disastrous dreams: the great gathering of Zion. Lindsay and Bryan pull apart the myth and the machinery behind Brigham Young’s plan to build a literal Kingdom of God in the American West, fueled by prophecies, poverty, and, …