Thu, 16 February 2017
On this episode, we finally dive into something highly anticipated for years, the Haun’s Mill Massacre. The title says it all; we discuss very adult concepts with graphic detail (listener discretion advised). We read 5 first-hand accounts of the massacre and bring it all together with Stephen LeSueur’s reconstruction of events. We finish out with a list of factors that lead to this fateful day in American history.
Links: Amanda Barnes Smith Lyman Omer Littlefield Autobiography James McBride 1876 microform Ellis Eames Mrs. Lucy Walker (Smith) Kimball: Show links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com
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Thu, 9 February 2017
On this episode, we invite Christopher Smith on for a follow-up of our last conversation. In order to be historically accurate, it’s important to take every possible opportunity to learn from historians and scholars. We discuss the proper terminology to use when analyzing Mormon colonization of Utah by getting into the nitty gritty of what constitutes battle and conquest as opposed to genocide. In retrospect, genocide does seem like an overly- sensationalized description of these fairly standard settler vs. Native conflicts throughout frontier America.
Links: Captain Fearnought’s white wool mountain-man coat Chris Smith South Park video Chris Smith with Dan Vogel on ThoughtsOnThingsAndStuff Worlds Without End blog
Show Links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com
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Fri, 3 February 2017
On this episode, we cover a lot of ground but only advance our timeline a total of 4 days. Mormon depredations throughout Daviess County are answered by vigilante militia depredations against Mormons. The anti-Mormons are routing the Mormons to concentrate their population in the twin sanctuary cities, Diahman and Far West in preparation of a mass siege to put down the Mormon fanatics once and for all. Captain Samuel Bogart’s troops take two Mormon spies prisoner and Captain Fearnought assaults their camp on Crooked River with the Danites. Once Governor Lilburn Boggs catches word of the Danite aggression, he answers with a 4,000-man militia armed with an Executive Order to exterminate the Mormons. We bring on Andrew Torrez of Opening Arguments podcast to shed some expert light on the situation.
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Links: Colonel Cornelius Neil Gilliam Captain Samuel Bogart General John Bullock Clark General Atchison to Boggs 22-10-1838 Recollections by Peter H. Burnett Ebenezer Robinson Autobiography
Show links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com
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