In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss several expeditions, including the Stansbury Expedition and the Gunnison Expedition and Massacre. Each of these events had a profound effect on early Mormonism.
SHOWNOTES:
- Howard Stansbury’s Expedition around the Great Salt Lake: An Examination of the Route and the Maps by Jesse G. Peterson
- John W.Gunnison’s Letters To His Mormon Friend, Albert Carrington
- Gunnison Indian Depredation clippings
- Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows Review By Thomas G. Alexander, Footnote
- History of Edward Steptoe
- Gunnison’s book: The Mormons, or, Latter-day saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
- Gunnison Massacre Site
- “Proud as a Peacock and Ignorant as a Jackass”: William W. Drummond’s Unusual Career
with the Mormons by Ronald Walker - GUNNISON MASSACRE—1853—MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH—INDIAN MAREER’S VERSION OF THE TRAGEDY—1894 by Josiah Gibbs