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the lives of all who entered the territory. ... In his confession, Mormon gunman
William A. Hickman matter-of-factly described Brigham Young called him to his office about that time and said: 'The boys have made a bad job of trying to put out of the way.' It was up to the feared Mormon executioner, Young allegedly said, 'to get him out of the way, and use him up.'
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