Well, darn... my first comment got marked as spam. So no links this time.
Do you suppose that Doyle could have chosen Mormons due to the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (If you don't know about it go google it.) The massacre happened in 1857 but an actual trial didn't occur until the late 1870s. (That pesky Civil War thingy sort of interrupted the investigations.)
A book was written about it in 1910, and there were articles written about before then. So I'm assuming it would have been something that British readers would have heard about, thus why Doyle chose to make the bad guys Mormons.
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Do you suppose that Doyle could have chosen Mormons due to the Mountain Meadows Massacre? (If you don't know about it go google it.) The massacre happened in 1857 but an actual trial didn't occur until the late 1870s. (That pesky Civil War thingy sort of interrupted the investigations.)
A book was written about it in 1910, and there were articles written about before then. So I'm assuming it would have been something that British readers would have heard about, thus why Doyle chose to make the bad guys Mormons.