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From 1862 to 1870, a group of Mormon elders under Young's leadership met as a shadow government after each session of the territorial legislature to ratify the new laws under the name of the "state of Deseret".
8 Οκτ 2015 · Utah history map : showing the proposed state of Deseret, original Utah Territory and subsequent reductions. Brigham Young University. Department of Audio-Visual Communication. "M04323."
Following each annual session of the General Assembly from January 1862 to January 1870, the members of the all-Mormon body formally ratified their work in the name of Deseret and "Governor" Young approved the action.
Deseret was the name given to the region for which the Mormon pioneers sought territorial status in 1849 and to the quasi government that they carried on for the next two years. It also designated the state they repeatedly sought to have admitted to the Union, and it also designated the shadow government they conducted from 1862 to 1870.
30 Δεκ 2014 · “Deseret” was a name often used in the territory colonized by the Mormon pioneers. Photographer: Robert L. Palmer. by Jeffrey Ogden Johnson. On February 2, 1848, by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the United States an extensive area that included the Great Basin, where Mormon pioneers had begun settlement six months earlier ...
Between 1847 and 1848, nearly 5,000 Mormons had settled in the Salt Lake Valley. Seeking formal recognition from the federal government in 1849, they proposed calling themselves the “State of Deseret,” a word borrowed from the Book of Mormon meaning “honeybee.” The honeybee remains an important symbol to both the LDS Church and the state of Utah.
30 Δεκ 2010 · After the arrival of the Mormons into the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847 the Church leadership proposed the creation of a new state called “Deseret,” a term meaning honey bees from the Church’s Book of Mormon.
