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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