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I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. This is part two on the series of

of the Life of Brigham Young, the prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints, first governor of the state of Utah and colonizer of the American West.

Just to remind you kind of where we left the story off.

In 1844, Joseph Smith is murdered and it's not immediately clear what's going to happen

to the church that he founded and left behind.

It's not clear who, if anyone, will lead the church.

But Brigham Young returns from a mission out east says that the authority to lead the church

is with the apostles and that he, as the senior

most apostle, has the authority in particular to be the leader. There's a big standoff with

another church leader named Sidney Rigdon, and the church votes basically unanimously for

Brigham Young to lead them. And so he becomes the new leader of the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints. We're in the city of Navu, Illinois, which Joseph Smith had established, and

Brigham Young has just taken control.

He is 43 years old.

So today we're going to go through the rest of the life of Brigham Young, how he led

thousands of people across the continental United States to establish a new state in the

American West with a new people and a new way of life.

And, you know, one of the reasons that I got into this story is because I think that it is so interesting that he was able to do this to build new cities, kind of a new kingdom is really

probably the best way to think about it.

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