Part II, Chapters 2-4
John Ferrier's refusal to give Lucy to a Mormon suitor leads to threats, the countdown of days marked on his property, and his murder—dramatizing the church as a coercive secret society.
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From A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Part II's depiction of the LDS Church as a violent, polygamous theocracy enforcing forced marriage through the Danites is the novel's most debated content; Conan Doyle later acknowledged the portrayal was unfair.
Part II, Chapter 1
Brigham Young's ultimatum to the dying Ferrier: convert or die.
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