Episode 384: Mormonism Part V - King of Beaver Island
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The History of Mormonism
When one of his wives divorced him in 1873, Young argued that he didn't owe her a goddamn thing because their marriage wasn't technically legal. Polygamy continued in Utah for another 13 years before the United States finally figured out a way to legally seize all church property and assets unless the Mormons renounced polygamy completely. On August 23, 1877, Brigham Young collapsed vomiting and shitting himself and his appendix burst two days later. Six days after that, the Lion of the Lord was dead.
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