Quote Originally Posted by Utah View Post
I wonder about the battalion. Would Utah had tried to fight off the US Army, wiping themselves out? Gold in the Uintas? The US government would have taken it away from Utah, like they did Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, etc.

A much less rousing fight song.

SL would be the epicenter of the West. We would be 20 million plus.
A little off topic, but I was in Old Town San Diego a few weeks back and while waiting for my dinner appointment I wandered into the Mormon Battalion historic site. I was greeted by a lovely sister missionary from South Carolina and led into a small room with one other family (my guess, non-mormon) for the start of the "tour."

To my horror, the tour consisted of talking picture frames (ala the Haunted House at Disneyland), the sister missionary engaged in some terribly scripted acting with the talking picture ghosts, and a movie about the Battalion (during which the sister missionary began dancing and playing the spoons during the climactic dance scene). Applejack left at this point. It was a bizarre mixture of disneyland, the Legacy movie, and church. Have other church historical sites taken on this bizarre tone as well?