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Sunstone Mormon History Podcast podcast

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Sunstone Mormon History Podcast

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  Sunstone  

There’s the Mormon history you do know … and the Mormon history you don’t. Join Lindsay Hansen Park (Year of Polygamy) and historian Bryan Buchanan as they dig into all aspects of Mormonism’s astonishing 200-year past—uncovering the little-known stories that chronicle how a six-person church grew into a multi-billion-dollar religion.

There’s the Mormon history you do know … and the Mormon history you don’t. Join Lindsay Hansen Park (Year of Polygamy) and historian Bryan Buchanan as they dig into all aspects of Mormonism’s astonishing 200-year past—uncovering the little-known stories that chronicle how a six-person church grew into a multi-billion-dollar religion.

 

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#111

Episode 112: Wasters and Destroyers

In the early days of the Utah territory, Mormon leaders decided to exterminate anything that got in the way of their plans to build their Kingdom of God. This episode delves into the ghastly execution of the Timpanogos tribe that occupied lands Mormons invaded. It also tells the story of the "Wasters & Destroyers" contest where Mormons devised a contest to kill as many animals as possible, which added to the devestation. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Daniel Hanmer Wells and Events of His Time] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/4406/bryant-s-hinckley/daniel-hanmer-wells-and-events-of-his-time) --- [The Whites Want Everything by Will Bagley] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=bagley+whites+want) --- [A History of Utah's American Indians by Forrest S. Cuch] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=forrest+cuch+history) --- [The Wasters and Destroyers article, Utah Historical Quarterly 1994 - VOL LXII - No 1] (https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=422216&q=wasters+and+destroyers) --- [A Historical Study of the Exploration of Utah Valley and the Story of Fort Utah ] (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5611&context=etd) --- [Ute perspectives of the Timpanogos Massacre] (https://blackhawkproductions.com/fortutah.htm) --- [Donate to the Timpanogos tribe] (http://timpanogostribe.com/index.html) ... Read more

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Episode 111: Before They Were Famous: Daniel H. Wells

It's time for another episode of Before They Were Famous. This time we focus on the leader of the Nauvoo Legion, Daniel H. Wells and his role in many massacres against indigenous tribes. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Daniel Hanmer Wells and Events of His Time] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/4406/bryant-s-hinckley/daniel-hanmer-wells-and-events-of-his-time) --- [Defender by Quentin Wells] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=defender+quentin+wells) --- [Protecting the Home Front: The Utah Territorial Militia During the Civil War by Ephraim D. Dickson III] (https://rsc.byu.edu/civil-war-saints/protecting-home-front-utah-territorial-militia-during-civil-war) --- [Lawrence R. Flake, Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001), 255–57.] (https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/daniel-hanmer-wells) --- [Indigenous history of Battle Creek Massacre] (https://blackhawkproductions.com/fortutah.htm) --- [History of the Timpanogos tribe] (https://timpanogostribe.com/history.html) --- [MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This - Guitar Percussion Cover] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK9hqQ-rKlU) ... Read more

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#109

Episode 110: The State of Deseret

In 1849 the Mormons in Utah territory had big, big plans. Too-big-for-their-britches kinds of plans. They called it the State of Deseret and it didn't last long, at least in name. Join Bryan and Lindsay as they discuss this turbulent history and the secret shadow government that still continues in Utah today. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West 1847-1896] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=forgotten+kingdom) ... Read more

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Episode 109: Gulls and the Crickets

It's the worst war in Mormon history: The Cricket War of 1849. Or is it 1851? (Wait, was it grasshoppers?) Lindsay and Bryan discuss the myth behind the famous lore of the Seagull and the Crickets. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Storytelling Through Brushstrokes: Minerva Teichert's Visualization of the Mormon Pioneer Experience and Messages to Her Audience by Amy L. Williamson ] (https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1393&context=etd) --- [Song: Seagulls and Crickets by the The Three D's] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=f7z1eT9HlAw) --- [Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls: A New Look At An Old Story by William Hartley] (https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume38_1970_number3/s/107089) ... Read more

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#107

Episode 108: The First Year in the GSL

Alright kids, the pioneers have arrived in Zion. Now what? Lindsay and Bryan talk about their first year in the Great Salt Lake valley. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [A Banner is Unfurled by Ron Walker] (https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N04_89.pdf) --- [Sagwitch Bio] (https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=usupress_pubs) --- [Open Hand and Mailed Fist: Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah 1847-52] (https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume46_1978_number3/s/129356)  by Howard Christie --- [Information on the different emigrant drop stations] (https://rsc.byu.edu/salt-lake-city-place-which-god-prepared/arrival-nineteenth-century-mormon-emigrants-salt-lake-city) --- [Indian Relations in Utah during the Civil War by Kenneth L. Alford] (https://rsc.byu.edu/civil-war-saints/indian-relations-utah-during-civil-war) ... Read more

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#106

E107: Brigham vs. Orson in a Quest for Power

In this episode, Bryan and Lindsay discuss Orson Pratt and the reorganization of the First Presidency. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Buy the book! Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith by Gary Bergera] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/33135/gary-james-bergera/conflict-in-the-quorum-orson-pratt-brigham-young-joseph-smith) ... Read more

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#105

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! Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Historic Resource Study: Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail by Stanley Kimball] (http://files.lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/articles/MormonPioneerNationalHistoricTrail.PDF) --- [Church overland trail database] (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/article/about-the-pioneer-data) --- ["This Is the Place": Myth and Mormondom by Richard C. Poulsen, Western Folklore, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul., 1977), pp. 246-252] (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1499252) --- [Finalizing Plans for the Trek West: Deliberations at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847 by ] (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43043993) [Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer 1984), pp. 301-320] (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43043993) --- [Violence and Disruptive Behavior on the Difficult Trail to Utah, 1847-1868 by David L. Clark, BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4 (2014)] (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43957153) --- [The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock by Will Bagley] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=pioneer+camp+bagley) --- [Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton edited by George Smith] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=intimate+chronicle+george+smith) --- [Lighthouse: Jerald & Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism by Ronald Huggins] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=lighthouse+huggins) ... Read more

24 Aug 2023

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#104

E105: Playing the Mormon Trail

Ever played the old PC game The Mormon Trail? Your ancestors played it in real life and this episode discusses what it was like for them. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Historic Resource Study: Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail by Stanley Kimball] (http://files.lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/articles/MormonPioneerNationalHistoricTrail.PDF) --- [Church overland trail database] (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/article/about-the-pioneer-data) ... Read more

10 Aug 2023

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#103

E104: Daily Life in the WQ

What was life like if you were stuck in Winter Quarters? Bryan and Lindsay dig into some of the stories of the women who lived there and what their day-to-day life was like. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [George Q. Cannon: Politician, Publisher, Apostle of Polygamy by Kenneth Cannon] (https://www.signaturebooks.com/books/p/george-q-cannon) --- [Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail by Carol Cornwall Madsen] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/advSearchResults.php?action=search&orderBy=relevance&category_id=0&keywordsField=journey+zion+carol+madsen) ... Read more

27 Jul 2023

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#102

E103: The Donner Party and the Mormons

Many people don't realize just how many Mormons were part of the fated Donner/Reed tragedy. In this episode, Lindsay and Bryan discuss the horrible tale of travel gone awry. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/donate/) --- [Register for the Sunstone Summer Symposium] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [The Emigrants' guide to Oregon and California by Lansford Hastings] (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24770423M/The_Emigrants%27_guide_to_Oregon_and_California) --- [The strange, sad and influential lives of the Donner Party survivors] (https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/What-happened-to-Donner-Party-survivors-16714121.php) --- [The Mormons and the Donner Party by Eugene E. Campbell] (https://byustudies.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/11.3CampbellMormons-3bf3c5c0-90f1-4e16-b4c1-18e61a87f083.pdf) --- [Nathaniel V. Jones diary, 1846 July-1847 August] (https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/f53c717e-62b9-4488-bdb1-5e0f8acd4639/0/59) --- [The journal of James Frazier Reed] (https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tm79fc/420337) --- [CROSSROADS IN THE WEST: THE INTERSECTIONS OF THE DONNER PARTY AND THE MORMONS by Guy L. Dorius] (https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NJ9.1_Dorius.pdf) ... Read more

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#101

E102: Ladies of the Battalion

Women were an integral part of the Mormon Battalion story and Lindsay and Bryan share their histories, including the story of a rogue group of women that braved the wild to avoid practicing polygamy. Shownotes: --- [Donate to Sunstone and the History Podcast (leave us a note in the comment section to say hi!)] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Register for the Sunstone Summer Symposium] (https://sunstone.org/registration/) --- [Women of the Mormon Battalion by Larson, Carl V. and Shirley N. Maynes (comps. and eds.)] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/3597/carl-v-larson-shirley-n-maynes-comps-and-eds/women-of-the-mormon-battalion) --- [Five hundred wagons stood still: Mormon Battalion wives by Shirley N. Maynes] (https://www.amazon.com/Five-hundred-wagons-stood-still/dp/0967609100/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DV47FUT1XJRS&keywords=shirley+maynes&qid=1687902560&sprefix=shirley+maynes%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1) --- [Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 by Ricketts, Norma Baldwin] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/2113/norma-baldwin-ricketts/mormon-battalion-u-s-army-of-the-west-1846-1848) --- [Called to War: Dawn of the Mormon Battalion by Sherman Fleek] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/20075/sherman-l-fleek/called-to-war-dawn-of-the-mormon-battalion) --- [Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives by Bigler, David L. and Will Bagley ] (https://www.benchmarkbooks.com/pages/books/5104/david-l-bigler-will-bagley/army-of-israel-mormon-battalion-narratives) ... Read more

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