Ep 180 – Mormons v. Carthaginians

On this episode, a fight breaks out between the Carthaginians and the Mormons of Nauvoo. Olive Amanda Smith Fullmer filed an affidavit charging her partner, Milton Cook, with bastardy (abandonment) and the Mormon Sheriff, Horace Eldridge, is granted a warrant for Cook’s arrest. When Eldridge arrives in Carthage, he’s confronted by the citizens and unable to serve the warrant. He returns to Nauvoo and gathers a posse of Nauvoo Legionnaires, including Stephen Markham, to descend on Carthage and affect the arrest once and for all. The ensuing confrontation creates chaos and pandemonium and the local media outlets battle it out in print for determining what actually happened.

Check out the updated Smith-entheogen theory paper here!
https://www.academia.edu/40786304/The_entheogenic_origins_of_Mormonism_A_working_hypothesis
https://akademiai.com/doi/full/10.1556/2054.2019.020

Links:

Olive Amanda Fullmer Smith
https://www.geni.com/people/Olive-Fullmer/6000000002404621131

Milton Cook
https://www.geni.com/people/Milton-Cook/6000000014559008144

Quincy Whig
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/whig1844.htm

Warsaw Message Jan 1844
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1844.htm#0110

Stephen Markham
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/stephen-markham

Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy by Merina Smith
https://books.google.com/books?id=ydS9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT128&lpg=PT128&dq=milton+cook+mormon&source=bl&ots=KeRqfRmEcz&sig=ACfU3U0FTrdRqTAmDw1y-Hz34Qnvq2ePOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz9cWg5dPlAhWxFjQIHbWWCt0Q6AEwAHoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=milton%20cook%20mormon&f=false

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