09.12.2018 - By Year of Polygamy Podcast
Join Lindsay as she interviews Joe Geisner about the Martin and Willie Handcart Company experience and how it relates to polygamy.
Links mentioned and read in this episode:
* Kirsten Erickson’s experience
* Brigham Young’s One Mighty and Strong Statement
South Pass: Gateway to a Continent by Will Bagley
* “ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH”: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON HANDCART DISASTERS by Will Bagley
* LDS Overland Travel Database
Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts
* Denver Post: Handcart Hypocrisy
* Sunstone: Two-Wheeled Torture Devices: A Contrarian’s View Of The Handcart Disaster
* Live Science: Going West Wasn’t So Deadly for Early Mormon Pioneers
* Human Mortality in a Natural Disaster: The Willie Handcart Company
* John Turner’s take on the Handcart expeditions
* Leadership, Planning, and Management of the 1856 Mormon Handcart Emigration by Don H. Smith
* By Common Consent: Learning the wrong lessons
* LDS version of the rescue
HANDCART MYTH AND FACT
The Martin Handcart Company at the Sweetwater – BYU Studies