01.27.2023 - By Sunstone
Today we are talking about Council Bluffs and how Mormons ended up there. The episode with Lindsay and Bryan discusses the controversial land trade Mormons made with the federal government to be able to settle "Winter Quarters" and the tragic consequences of the deal.
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A typewritten copy of a manuscript titled "Camp of the Saints and the circumstances connected with their exodus from Nauvoo, the City of Joseph West through the wilderness in search of home and place of rest", containing an inventory of the circumstances connected to the LDS exodus from Nauvoo. The manuscript was written by by John D. Lee Young.
The Mormon Battalion's Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War by Natalie Brooke Coffman