Women were an integral part of the Mormon Battalion story and Lindsay and Bryan share their histories, including the story of a rogue group of women that braved the wild to avoid practicing polygamy.
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- Women of the Mormon Battalion by Larson, Carl V. and Shirley N. Maynes (comps. and eds.)
- Five hundred wagons stood still: Mormon Battalion wives by Shirley N. Maynes
- Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 by Ricketts, Norma Baldwin
- Called to War: Dawn of the Mormon Battalion by Sherman Fleek
- Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives by Bigler, David L. and Will Bagley