WI: Alt US-Mormon Relations

I'm not saying Young wasn't firmly in charge of the Utah Mormons at the time of the Utah War, that much I'll concede, but the allure of gold applies to Mormons just as much as it does to Gentiles, and with more Mormon expansionism and decentralization in general ITTL I found it hard to believe that Salt Lake City will remain the undisputed center of all Mormon thought on the east coast. Especially as the Mormons in the Utah Territory struggle to integrate the new Gentile settlers and the mostly Gentile government put in place by the US.

The "lure of Gold' happened OTL, prior to the Utah War in fact. OTL Mormons were perfectly aware that there was a large amount of mineral wealth in the region and made deliberate efforts to avoid it. Mormons weren't passive objects being mechanically knocked about by outside forces, they were people who OTL saw that excess decentralization and lots of mineral wealth would destabilize their commonwealth and so acted to avoid both. Why is ATL different?
 
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