This episode is basically a standalone Saints episode! Why? You may ask. Because the book covers a massive and controversial time of early Mormonism, when Joseph Smith incited a civil war and lost. We compare the Saints book to the documents of the time and see how it shakes out with the following issues: excommunications of Oliver Cowdery, David and John Whitmer, and William W. Phelps, land disputes, The Salt Sermon, the Danites, the Army of Israel, the July 4th Oration, the Gallatin election day brawl, the siege of De Witt, the Mormon depredations and raiding of militia supply depots and stealing a cannon, the Battle of Crooked River, David W. Patten (Captian Fearnought) and his glorious blaze, Thomas B. Marsh and milk strippings, and the Mormon Extermination Order, along with some of the militia movements along the way. There’s more to the story but that’s a little teaser for this reading of Saints: The Standard of Truth, the official history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then we wrap with some happy news about an activist sinking some marble statues!

 

Show notes: 

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-thomas-b-marsh-15-february-1838/2

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835/95

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-12-january-1838-a/1

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/minute-book-2/99

Pick up Stephen LeSueur’s book here! https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Danite_Manifesto

http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/BFJohnson.html

http://www.withoutend.org/missouri-sow-cannon-folis-folly

https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~livcomo/letters/mormon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Extermination_Order

https://josephsmithspolygamy.org/oliver-cowdery-letter-to-warren-a-cowdery-olivers-brother-january-21-1838/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-1-letter-to-oliver-cowdery-and-others-circa-17-june-1838/1

https://user.xmission.com/~research/mormonpdf/article4.pdf

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/rigd1838.htm

https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/rg005-01

 

NaMo links: 

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-40-second-mass-exodus-plus-marie-bom/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-41-gloria-ecclesia-fili-raptus-nominee-deorum/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-42-schism-grenade-john-hamer/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-43-red-sermon/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-44-battle-begins/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-45-militant-seekers-truth/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-46-mo-conquest-mythicist-milwaukee-pt2/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-47-executive-order-atrocity-andrew-torrez/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-48-hauns-mill-massacre-listen-ep-48/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-49-profit-high-treason/

https://nakedmormonismpodcast.com/episode-50-mo-justice-mo-peace/

 

Happy News:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/17/underwater-museum-how-paolo-the-fisherman-made-the-meds-strangest-sight 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faKQYPeVOl0 

 

Other Appearances: 

 

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