In the mid-nineteenth century, many thousands of Mormons emigrated to the semi-arid and isolated Great Basin West, forced from their homes by patriotic, God-fearing mobs.
Non-Latter-day Saint historian John Turner points to some resemblances in the reception of the two groups by the American public:
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