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1) True sisters
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In order to encourage Mormon converts to immigrate to Salt Lake City, a plan was implemented by Brigham Young himself. Outfitted with two-wheeled handcarts, the immigrants were then expected to walk, pulling the handcarts, for the 1,300-mile journey from Iowa City. Several "companies", as they were called, completed this perilous trek and successfully reached Salt Lake City. But for the Martin Company, the last group to leave that year, the trip proved...
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner...
12) The Mormons
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In this revealing American Experience/Frontline co-production, dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today, and how they are finally confronting its history of what is fact and what is fiction.
13) Brigham Young
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The story of the Mormon pioneers' long wagon train west to the Salt Lake Valley, led by Brigham Young (Jagger). A subplot involves a trail scout (Power) who falls in love with a non-Mormon (Darnell) on the way.