Shortly after he arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, First Lieutenant Jacob Hamblin led Mormon Soldiers against the Native American Tribes near Skull Valley.  His orders were straightforward and grim -- find the Native American raiding parties, chase them down, and kill them all.  But following a series of experiences that he believed were divine guidance to him, Jacob  Hamblin-- far from destroying them -- became the single greatest friend to the Native peoples of Utah.  Time and again, he brokered peace between the Native Tribes, the Mormon pioneers, and Americans heading west.  

In this first of a two-part series, we will cover the incredible life of Jacob Hamblin.    

To learn more about the stories in this episode, you can check out:

James Little, "Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians, and Explorer" (1909).

Howard A. Christy, "Open Palm and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-1852 (Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 46: 3 (1978), available at https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=422592.