Join Lindsay as she and scholar Cristina Rosetti discuss the second part of when Mormon Fundamentalism goes wrong, including the stories of Arvin Shreeve, the Lafferty brothers, and Knights of the Crystal Blade. Part one can be found here.   Links and reading mentioned in this podcast:

• Newsweek article on Arvin Shreeve
• Deseret News reports on Arvin Shreeve’s death
• Victims of Shreeve tell their stories
• Children of Shreeve
• More info on the Zionist society
• Newsweek on Knights of the Crystal Blade
• SL Trib’s reporting on the Crystal Blade case
• People.com reporting on Dan Lafferty update
• Deseret News looks back on the Lafferty case
• Blood Brothers: reporting on the Lafferty brothers by City Weekly
• Sunstone panel on Under the Banner of Heaven

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Join Lindsay and Cristina as they discuss the case of Brian David Mitchell. This is part one of a two-part episode.   Links mentioned and referenced in this podcast:

• THE MAKING OF IMMANUEL: BRIAN DAVID MITCHELL AND THE MORMON FRINGE By John-Charles Duffy
• City Weekly Article on Brian David Mitchell
• The Utah Bee articles on child brides

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Join Lindsay as she interviews historians Jedediah Rogers and Cristina Rosetti about the Council of 50 minutes.   Links mentioned in this podcast:

• Purchase the Minutes and Book
• Joseph Smith papers on the Council of 50
• By Common Consent’s take on the Council

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Join Lindsay as she hosts a sermon given by Brigham Young, delivered by actor Micah Nickolaisen.   Link to the sermon:

• Plurality of Wives—The Free Agency of Man

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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

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Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Cristina Rosetti and Sara Vraneš about the history of sexuality and reproduction for Mormon women.   Links and books mentioned in this podcast:

• Rediscovering the history of Midwives
• The Relief Society magazine : organ of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Ye Ancient and Honorable Order of Midwifery
• Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals: Women at the Gates of Mortality
• A Timeline of Mormon Sexuality
• Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century
• Mormon Polygamy Documents about Bennett and Abortion
• Blog on black women’s reproduction
• Kimball’s talk: God Will Not Be Mocked

   

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Join Lindsay as she interviews scholars Cristina Rosetti and Sara Vraneš about the history of sexuality and reproduction for Mormon women.   Links and books mentioned in this podcast:

• Rediscovering the history of Midwives
• The Relief Society magazine : organ of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• A Gift Given, A Gift Taken: Ye Ancient and Honorable Order of Midwifery
• Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals: Women at the Gates of Mortality
• A Timeline of Mormon Sexuality
• Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century
• Mormon Polygamy Documents about Bennett and Abortion
• PART TWO HERE

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Join Lindsay as she discusses the history of Utah’s “Dixie Wine Mission.” Links and articles mentioned and read this in this episode:

• Dennis R. Lancaster’s BYU Dissertation: Dixie Wine Mission
• A Frontier Life book about Jacob Hamblin
• History of John C. Naegle and family
• Dennis Lancaster’s Sunstone article on the Wine Mission
• More about Naegle
• Isabella Grape

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  Join Lindsay as she talks about the history of the Word of Wisdom, following the death of Joseph Smith to the modern observances of LDS people today.   Links mentioned and read in this episode:

• Marijuana , Mormon Racists , Mexican Bandidos, and Crazy Queen Carlotta
• BEFORE THE BEARD: TRIALS OF THE YOUNG JOSEPH F. SMITH
• Clair Barrus’ research draft on Word of Wisdom
• Clair Barrus’ website
• LDS Newsroom Statment on Marijuana
• https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/utah-brewing-timeline/Content?oid=2157612
• http://www.utahhumanities.org/stories/items/show/135
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs_Hotel_and_Brewery
• https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/buzzed-beehive-brief-history-drinking-utah/
• http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50218443&itype=CMSID
• http://devourutah.com/index.php/2017/07/10/fresh-suds-salt-lake-valley/
•  https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/history-of-beer-in-utah/
• http://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2016/08/brigham-young-and-valley-tan-whiskey_18.html)
• https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/utah-brewing-timeline/Content?oid=2157612f)
• https://www.thedeadhistory.com/emos-grave-salt-lake-city/ Jacob Moritz opened and owned several very successful breweries.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19331516/jacob-moritz
• http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/logan-ut-2-breweries/henry-worley-brewery-ut-9a/
• http://larkturnthehearts.blogspot.com/2009/05/corner-of-3rd-west-and-center-st-logan.html
• https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2017/11/16/this-utah-river-played-a-part-in-salt-lake-citys-beer-brewing-history-and-now-it-could-help-restore-a-victorian-mansion/
• https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/j/JORDAN_RIVER.shtml
• http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/logan-ut-2-breweries/jacob-theurer-brewery-ut-8a/d
• https://books.google.com/books?id=dPI7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=Jacob+Theurer+utah&source=bl&ots=r9NDMZtvnb&sig=7X7SZQoEV_wf9OYI7r4D6susP6I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidhqu0sencAhXKIjQIHcALDnY4ChDoATABegQIAxAB#v=onepage&q=Jacob%20Theurer%20utah&f=false
• http://utahstories.com/2013/03/fisher-brewing-company-part-i/
• http://www.ldsliving.com/A-Controversial-Bar-Famous-Guests-More-Things-You-Didn-t-Know-About-Hotel-Utah-Before-It-Became-the-Joseph-Smith-Memorial-Building/s/82527

 

• EXTRAS:
• Here’s a few fun quotes about drinking as well from various prophets: https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Question:_Why_did_Brigham_Young_build_a_whiskey_distillery_in_Utah%3F
• Click here to see some really fun photos of old bars in Utah: http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56987423&itype=CMSID#gallery-carousel-446996 and more(https://www.peachridgeglass.com/2012/09/historic-photos-of-saloons-and-breweries-around-utah-in-the-wild-west-days/
• Other breweries in Utah (can’t confirm if Mormon or not): http://www.oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/utah/salt-lake-city-ut-13-breweries/henry-wagener-brewery-ut-34a/)

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Join Lindsay as she covers the early history of the Mormon idea of the “Word of Wisdom.”   Links mentioned or read in this podcast:

• Clair Barrus’ research draft on Word of Wisdom
• History of the Word of Wisdom by Scott Kenney
• Fair Mormon’s take on Joseph Smith drinking in Carthage
• Clair Barrus’ website

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