Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

Episode 117: The Gunnison Expedition and Massacre

02.07.2024 - By SunstonePlay

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In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss several expeditions, including the Stansbury Expedition and the Gunnison Expedition and Massacre. Each of these events had a profound effect on early Mormonism.

SHOWNOTES:

Howard Stansbury’s Expedition around the Great Salt Lake: An Examination of the Route and the Maps by Jesse G. Peterson

John W.Gunnison's Letters To His Mormon Friend, Albert Carrington 

Gunnison Indian Depredation clippings

Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows Review By Thomas G. Alexander, Footnote

History of Edward Steptoe

Gunnison's book: The Mormons, or, Latter-day saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake

Gunnison Massacre Site

“Proud as a Peacock and Ignorant as a Jackass”: William W. Drummond’s Unusual Career

with the Mormons by Ronald Walker

GUNNISON MASSACRE—1853—MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH—INDIAN MAREER'S VERSION OF THE TRAGEDY—1894 by Josiah Gibbs

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