E106: The Vanguard Comes West

Well, that took forever... But Bryan and Lindsay finally brought the podcast to Zion! This episode covers the story of Brigham Young's vanguard wagon company as they arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley. Now the fun can really begin!

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Historic Resource Study: Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail by Stanley Kimball

Church overland trail database

"This Is the Place": Myth and Mormondom by Richard C. Poulsen, Western Folklore, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1977), pp. 246-252

Finalizing Plans for the Trek West: Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847 by Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer 1984), pp. 301-320

Violence and Disruptive Behavior on the Difficult Trail to Utah, 1847-1868 by David L. Clark, BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2014)

The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock by Will Bagley

Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton edited by George Smith

Lighthouse: Jerald & Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism by Ronald Huggins