son, "Dollars and cents do not count now, in these times, for they are the tightest that I have ever seen in the territory of Utah."

Involvement of church leaders

In September 1856, as the drought continued, the trials and difficulties of the previous year led to an explosion of intense soul-searching. Church leaders had viewed the economic disasters of the previous years as acts of God, and sensed that something was needed to assist the Saints in their quest for temporal survival and spiritual salvation. Brigham Young, at

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