Comments about ‘Mormon expulsion perhaps spurred by land grab, Education Week speaker suggests’
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The Mormon movement was, itself, a deliberate "land grab", taking advantage of homesteading laws (supported by the upstate NY political party - the Free Soil Party), and using those consecrated assets to capitalize the Kirtland (anti)Banking scam in lieu of silver or gold.
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