Another primary source that may interest some of you is this book,
Tending The Talking Wire. Talk about a book a lot of people have tried to burn, hide, etc. It's a religious Quaker's, Hervey Johnson, who was stationed at Ft. Laramie and some of it's outposts from 1863-1866, letters to his family back East. One of his duties was helping people escape from Utah, who had become more "enlightened" after their arrival there, and didn't want to stay.
This is has little to do with the LDS church today, but is history. History doesn't have a morel or a plot, it just is what happened.
