11.15.2023 - By Sunstone
It's time for another episode of Before They Were Famous. This time we focus on the leader of the Nauvoo Legion, Daniel H. Wells and his role in many massacres against indigenous tribes.
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Daniel Hanmer Wells and Events of His Time
Defender by Quentin Wells
Protecting the Home Front: The Utah Territorial Militia During the Civil War by Ephraim D. Dickson III
Lawrence R. Flake, Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 255–57.
Indigenous history of Battle Creek Massacre
History of the Timpanogos tribe
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