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Within the wake of Joseph Smith Jr.'s murder in 1844, his pursuing splintered, plus some allied themselves with a maverick Mormon apostle, Lyman Wight. Sometimes called the "Outdoors Ram of Texas," Wight took his splinter group to frontier Texas, a destination to which Smith, before his murder, possessed considered moving his enthusiasts, who were progressively more unwelcome in the Midwest. He previously instructed Wight to consider a small band of church associates from Wisconsin to establish a Texas colony that would prepare the ground for a mass migration of the regular membership. Having received these purchases directly from Smith, Wight didn't believe the former's fatality changed their significance. If anything, he believed even more responsible for satisfying what he presumed was a prophet's intent. Antagonism with Brigham Young and the other LDS apostles grew, and Wight refused to join with them or move to their new gathering place in Utah. He and his small congregation pursued their own destiny, becoming an interesting element of the Texas frontier, where that they had a significant financial role as early on millers and cowboys and a political one as a buffer with the Comanches. Their sociable and religious practices shared lots of the idiosyncracies of the larger Mormon sect, including polygamous relationships, temple rites, and financial cooperatives. Wight was a charismatic but authoritarian and progressively more odd figure, in part because of chemical addictions. His fatality in 1858 while leading his shrinking range of enthusiasts on yet yet another migration brought an effective end to his independent church.
