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Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed...
10) The Mormons
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[2007]
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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.