Nor do I expect we
shall stop at Arizona, but I look forward to the time when the settlements of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will extend right through to
the city of Old Mexico, and from thence on through Central America to the land
where the Nephites flourished in the Golden era of their history, and the great
backbone of the American continent be filled, north and south, with the cities
and temples of the people of God. In this great work I anticipate the children
of Nephi, of Laman, and Lemuel [RB: a reference to Amerindians] will take no
small part. (Brigham Young, letter dated January 11, 1876, in Letterbook
14:125-26)
