Go trail riding in Snow Canyon State Park in St. George, Utah, and you’ll be riding through Utah’s Dixie. When Brigham Young called upon the 300-plus families to help with the Cotton Mission, they did not go happily. “I have seen faces look as long as a sectarian parson’s face,” reported church leader George A. Smith. But Young hoped their efforts would help


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