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Mormon Folk Songs
Important thread with songs important to history:
Bullfight on the San Pedro
Zack, the Mormon Engineer
John D. Lee (Mountain Meadows related)
The Double Tragedy
Brighter Days in Store (see Hard Times Come Again No More)
All Are Talking of Utah
The Desert Route
(The last one tells the story of the Mormon Batallion that founded the Desert Wagon Route during the Mexican War that led to the Gadsen Purchase from Mexico and eventual building of the Southern Pacific route).