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How to Kill a Town (1869)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
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The town of Corinne was established when the transcontinental railroad was being completed in northern Utah in 1869. Settled primarily by gentile railway workers, it quickly mushroomed into a tough border town as well as a hotbed of anti-Mormonism. Faced with the prospect of this anti-Mormon town becoming a major railroad and metropolitan center [...]