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The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to warn us, to try to alert us.

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and irreverent) outsider’s perspective on early Utah. Twain is impressed by the Mormon settlers’ industry, puzzled by their practice of polygamy, bored by their scripture and enthralled with their mountainous landscape.