My Mormon Journey

Shortly after departing from the fur traders, I experienced a deep religious revival with God. Therefore, I thought this was a sign from God advising me to seek religious inspiration for my novel. Hearing of my dream, Gideon proposed that we travel back east to Illinois where the Mormons lived as a way to fathom how a newly founded Christian deviation has attracted so much gossip among the travelers we met along the western trails. After several months of dangerous snowy storms, we were finally able to set out east towards Nauvoo, Illinois to visit the famous Brigham Young. Accepting Gideon’s advice, I hoped to obtain another different religious perspective from my Protestant values to further progress my characters’ development. Buying newspapers along my travels, I understood parts of the outrage against the Mormon practice of polygamy and kept up to date with the Mormon issues in order to be well prepared with my conversation with Young unlike my difficult position with Ross. Finally, we …show more content…
It’s not surprising that he created a controversy in Protestant America with his support of polytheism, polygamy, and unity of power in contrast to monotheism, monogamy, and Jacksonian democracy. In addition, he viewed himself as a loyal servant to God by preaching to the masses in New England; perhaps it is why there were so many converts among the urban working class. He was like the right hand man to Joseph Smith due to their similar high devotions in spreading their religion in America as if they wanted to create a kingdom for their