Editing Brigham Young (section)

===Impact===
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}}Young had many nicknames during his lifetime, among the most popular being "American [[Moses]]"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brigham Young|url=https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/brigham-young|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222060906/https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/brigham-young|archive-date=December 22, 2021|access-date=January 2, 2022|website=Newsroom|series=Topics and Background|publisher=[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]}}</ref> (alternatively, "Modern Moses" or "Mormon Moses"),{{sfn|Gibbons|1981}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Steorts|first=Jason Lee|title=The Mormon Moses|date=October 29, 2012|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/330077/mormon-moses|journal=[[National Review]]|author-link=Jason Lee Steorts}}</ref> because, like the [[Bible|biblical]] figure, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, in an [[Emigration|exodus]] through a desert, to what they saw as a promised land.{{sfn|Shipps|1985|pp=59–61|ps=. "Historical accounts of the corporate movement of the Saints from Nauvoo to the Great Basin are rarely written without mentioning that the Saints who followed Brigham Young westward resolved themselves into a Camp of Israel ... as had the ancient Israelites during their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land".}}{{sfn|Arrington|1985|p=403|ps=. "Traveling to their Promised Land and living there under the direction of this nineteenth-century Moses was, as Jan Shipps has reminded us, a transformative experience."}}

He credited Young's leadership with helping to settle much of the American West:<ref name="paul197412">{{cite magazine|author=Paul|first=Rodman W.|title=The Mormons of Yesterday and Today|date=January 1975|url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/357/1/mormons.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/357/1/mormons.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|magazine=Engineering & Science (now Caltech Magazine)|publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]]|volume=38|issue=2|pages=12–27|author-link=Rodman W. Paul}}</ref>

{{blockquote|During the 30 years between the Mormons' arrival in Utah in 1847 and [his death in] 1877, Young directed the founding of 350 towns in the Southwest. Thereby the Mormons became the most important single agency in colonizing that [[Intermountain West|vast arid West between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada]].}}

Memorials to Young include a bronze statue in front of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building, Brigham Young University; a [[Brigham Young (Mahonri Young statue)|marble statue]] in the [[National Statuary Hall Collection]] at the [[United States Capitol]], donated by the [[State of Utah]] in 1950;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/national-statuary-hall-collection/brigham-young |title=Art: Sculpture {{ndash}} Statues: Brigham Young |work=Explore Capitol Hill |publisher=[[Architect of the Capitol]] }}</ref> and a statue atop the ''[[This is the Place Monument]]'' in Salt Lake City.