Apostle Orson Hyde offered this counsel late in 1850, warning against marriage and even social contact between Mormon women and men who were headed to the gold mines in California, who were spending the winter in Salt Lake City, many of them joining the Church. His advice was based on Mormon experience of the previous season, when Gold Rushers who had spent the winter in relative comfort in Salt Lake City turned out to be “Winter Saints,” the...
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