By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – In the spring of 1857, President James Buchanan appointed a non-Mormon governor for the Utah Territory and sent off troops to enforce the order. Armed skirmishes between the Mormon militia and the U.S. Army followed, and the roughly year-long conflict is now known as the "Utah War." On Thursday, Doug speaks with independent historians Will Bagley and David Bigler as well as LDS Church Historian Richard Turley about this pivotal moment in Utah history.
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