Claire’s Reviews > Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet > Status Update

learning that early utah was a WILD place

"[Brigham Young] ... lent his approval ... to shadowy acts of retribution that alarmed even some loyal Mormons ... Young condoned the castration of Thomas Lewis and the Parrish-Potter murders and suggested that an unspecified number of others deserved to die. Young ... created a climate in which men and women on the margins of Mormon society lived in a ... state of fear."