In my effort to understand Mormons’ cultural position by studying names applied to them, I recently encountered an unfamiliar epithet: Bluebeard asks for a seat in the Senate. He stands with one hand locking the door of his chamber of horrors, and with the other he knocks for admission to the supreme legislative assembly of the foremost Christian republic of all time…. How large is the territory over which the Mormon Bluebeard exercises sway? …[two paragraphs describing the Great Basin]