![]() Iron-grasp of hierarchical theocracy, had refused an order to step down as the Young, who preached a violent millennialistįire-and-brimstone Christianity and controlled the territory with the Place in a time of great turmoil and escalating violence in Utah Territory.īrigham Young and the Mormon Church were in full revolt against the United Ring of possibility to Hickman’s claim anyway. Mormon historians ever since, but the conditions in Utah at the time gives a AĬlaim contradicted by the men Hickman implicated in Yates’s murder, and by HickmanĬlaimed Yates’s killing had been ordered by Mormon prophet Brigham Young. The Mormon militia, called the Nauvoo Legion, had arrested Yates on aĬharge of spying for the approaching U.S. October 18, 1857, the notorious lawman, lawyer, and admitted murderer, WilliamĪdams Hickman – labeled, “this red-handed wretch,” by the New York WorldĪnd popularly known as Wild Bill – “used up” the mountaineer Richard E.
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