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150 years ago
Horace Greeley, one of America's best-known journalists, arrived in Salt Lake City for a visit on July 10, 1859.
According to "A Comprehensive History of the Church" by B.H. Roberts, Greeley was "founder and editor of the New York Tribune … and then — 1859 — at the height of his power and popularity."
The history states that on July 13, Greeley "had a two-hour interview with Brigham Young, chiefly upon 'Mormonism,' The editor's questions covered a great variety of subjects … but failed to reach the really fundamental things of the New Dispensation of the Christian religion. The substance of his questions and the answers to them he gives in his Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco, published a year later."
The history's conclusion was that, although Greeley's visit was only 10 days long, he "placed upon record concerning the people and conditions in Utah some passages that are valuable as the report of a brief sojourner among the saints, who was a keen observer, and a man of unusual intelligence, and one who intended to be fair."
