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My research into the Indian Territory Missions—1855 has turned to the married life of Mormon missionaries and their Cherokee and Creek wives. The marriages began in 1816 in Georgia, migrated to Nauvoo and Arkansas, then moved to Indian Territory in what is now eastern Oklahoma, and finally trekked on to Utah Territory. These stories have amazing narratives of love and wedded status that last many decades, as well as themes of ugliness due to alcoholism, brutality, abandonment, prostitution, and untimely death in the Mormon West.

Speaker
Melvin Clarno Johnson