It's kind of a big part of the whole Morman story yet it's totally left out of LDS Sunday school.
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It's Mormon with an 'o', and Mormons don't teach more than half of the church's history. They teach the story about the brave pioneers who prepared to burn the city to the ground when soldiers invaded, but they don't teach the part called "Mountain Meadows Massacre". You can google that story. They don't teach that the scroll from which J.S. translated the Book Of Abraham still exists and the translation is total baloney. Here is that story:
viewzone.com/mormon.html
BTW I don't know about the hat. What's the story?