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Building a Commonwealth: The Secular Leadership of Brigham Young BY LEONARD J . ARRINGTON AND RONALD K. ESPLIN Brigham Young's estate looking south toward the Eagle Gate and Beehive House with City Creek in the foreground. This oil painting by Danquart A. Weggeland was so popular that he made several copies of it. Courtesy of the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts.
\ J N E HUNDRED T W E N T Y - T H R E E years ago, in the spring of 1854, a large expedition left the Salt Lake Valley headed south. It included twelve carriages, carrying leaders of the U t a h community; another twenty-two
