Join Lindsay as she interviews historian Joseph Geisner about 1850’s Utah including stories about Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell.  This episode contains strong themes of violence. This is part one of a two-part episode.

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TW: This podcast contains some discussions of rape. Join Lindsay as she discusses how women’s sexuality became the catalyst for a decade or more of Mormon violence, and the curious Victorian scandal involving Brigham Young’s daughter-in-law and a “Gentile” soldier.

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Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The must-read essay by historian William MacKinnon:
• Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe: Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
• Additional info from the LDS Church History Library Here.