Fort Douglas

✅ Utahans had been denied statehood for more than forty years, primarily because of the states connection to polygamy. Then in 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣0️⃣, the Mormon Church ⛪️ published the Woodruff Manifesto ending 🔚 plural marriages, and ➕ the promise of statehood was granted. Many Mormon husbands either kept their multiple wives or provided separate accommodations for them ➡️👥 and ➕ their children. But some sent 📦️➡️ their wives away expecting them ➡️👥 to fend for themselves. As a result, many formerly married ➡️💍 Mormon women 👯‍♀️ in Salt 🧂 Lake City 🏙️ had to ⚙️ work as prostitutes in the brothels. It is in this volatile community that Abigail Randolph finds 🔎 herself at the beginning 🆕 of Fort Douglas. Raised 🤚 in Kentucky on her 👤👩⬅️ grandparents horse 🐴 farm and ➕ educated at Smith College, Abigail Randolph had rarely seen 👀 her 👤👩⬅️ father 🎅 who was now a colonel in the army. Then in 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣5️⃣, he 👤👨 invites her 👤👩⬅️ to visit Fort Douglas where he 👤👨 is the commanding officer 👮. With conflicting emotions about her 👤👩⬅️ father 🎅, she 👤👩 sets 📐 out from Boston to help regain womens 🚺️ suffrage in Utah, but her 👤👩⬅️ goals 🥍 change after she 👤👩 discovers the tragic result of the end 🔚 of polygamy there. She 👤👩 is met 👤🤝👤 at the train 🚆 station 🚉 by her 👤👩⬅️ fathers 🎅 adjutant, Captain Garrett Talbot. Willing to help his 👤👨⬅️ commanding officer 👮, the Captain realizes that the Colonels daughter is going ➡️ to be trouble for both of them ➡️👥. Her 👤👩⬅️ independent nature clashes with the captains adherence to military 🎖️ protocol. Abbys insistence on helping Mormon women 👯‍♀️ places her 👤👩⬅️ own life 🧬 in danger ⚡️ and ➕ jeo...

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