Factories that once provided tens of thousands ofjobs now stand as hollow shells, windows broken, mute testimony to a lostindustrial past. Whole rows of small shops and stores are boarded up orburned out. Over ten thousand houses are uninhabited; over sixty thousandlots lie empty, marring almost every city neighborhood. Whole sections ofthe city are eerily apocalypti
This speaks volumes given Detroit’s volatile history and how it leads to today
Brigham Young, the leader of the Church after the death of Joseph Smith, was appointed governor of the Utah Territory by the federal government in 1850. He encouraged Mormon residents of the territory to engage in agricultural pursuits and be cautious of the outsiders who arrived as the mining and railroad industries developed in the region.4
Why would Young have them go full agriculture if the industry was rapidly increasing? Would they have been better off?