02.07.2024 - By Sunstone
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