Summary of Sally Denton's The Colony

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The community of La Mora is made up of approximately forty families, and they are all extremely diverse. They include breakaway Mormon fundamentalists, polygamists, Mormon-born worshipers who identify as independents, mainstream Mormons, and even some agnostics and hippies.
#2 Another group of American Mormons emigrated to Mexico in the 1950s, and settled in the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. They were penniless, and lived in a tent with no running water.
#3 The botched capture of Ovidio by Mexican security forces just two weeks before the Mormon attacks threw the region into crisis. The Sinaloa Cartel had forged a time-honored, if unofficial, pact with La Mora.
#4 The massacre sparked outrage on both sides of the border, with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowing to find the assassins. American President Donald Trump tweeted an offer to send US troops to clean out the monsters.

Sujets

• Polygamie
• History
• Mexico
• Latin America
• Histoire

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822549180
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The community of La Mora is made up of approximately forty families, and they are all extremely diverse. They include breakaway Mormon fundamentalists, polygamists, Mormon-born worshipers who identify as independents, mainstream Mormons, and even some agnostics and hippies.

#2

Another group of American Mormons emigrated to Mexico in the 1950s, and settled in the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. They were penniless, and lived in a tent with no running water.

#3

The botched capture of Ovidio by Mexican security forces just two weeks before the Mormon attacks threw the region into crisis. The Sinaloa Cartel had forged a time-honored, if unofficial, pact with La Mora.

#4

The massacre sparked outrage on both sides of the border, with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowing to find the assassins. American President Donald Trump tweeted an offer to send US troops to clean out the monsters.

#5

The LeBaron family, who were Mormon, were largely believed to be responsible for the slaughter. The family had a long history of violence with their neighbors and the Mexican cartels, but many members of the fundamentalist Mormon communities in both the US and Mexico wondered if this was a continuation of the fifty-year-old vendetta between the two families.

#6

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established in 1830 by Joseph Smith, who claimed that he had been chosen by God to write a book about one of the ten lost tribes of Israel.

#7

The religion was not Judaic or Christian, but it was still perceived as a radical faith by most Americans. It was a version of the American dream, with little boys being told they could grow up to be president, and also gods.

#8

The Mormon church was not yet five months old when, fearing for his life and the lives of his followers, Smith turned his attention to finding a location to build his Zion. He moved the growing flock to an existing communal colony in Kirtland, Ohio.

#9

When Smith was arrested in 1838, he and his followers fled to Illinois, where they founded Nauvoo. In 1844, Smith petitioned Congress for the town to become its own federal territory, but instead it became the final stop on the road to his Celestial Kingdom.

#10

After returning from a mission in England, Benjamin Johnson met Melissa B. LeBaron, an orphan who, in appearance, education, and ease of manner, had no equal in the vicinity. They were quickly married.

#11

After polygamy was announced, the Mormons were completely cut off from their Protestant neighbors, and many of Smith’s followers defected. While some men were appalled by the practice, others were intrigued by it.

#12

The church and the community grew increasingly hostile towards each other as rumors spread about Smith’s secret marriages to nearly fifty women. Smith became increasingly reckless, and his followers began to fear him.

#13

After the murder of Joseph Smith, the Mormons’ increasing paranoia became intense agitation. The Mormons began to see Young as a usurper who ruled with an iron fist and displayed a dangerous desire to avenge the blood of the Prophet.

#14

Brigham Young led the Mormons in their journey to found their own nation, Deseret, in what is now Utah. Young was a brilliant and resourceful leader, and the Mormons were able to build what was, at the time, the most ambitious desert civilization the world had ever seen.