Ep 142 – Pistol Packin’ Porter in Prison

Naked Mormonism Podcast

On this episode, Orrin Pistol Packin’ Porter Rockwell lets down his guard and heads for Nauvoo. As he was about to board the steamer, a bounty hunter caught up with him. We follow Port and his troubles in Missouri criminal justice system of 1843. In Port’s absence, a new wolf in sheep’s clothing appears.

Links:

Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition by Morris A. Thurston https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4215&context=byusq

Millennial Star 1860 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/MStar/id/37198

Porter Rockwell “facts” http://www.ldsliving.com/Porter-Rockwell-7-Unbelievable-Facts-and-Stories-You-Didn-t-Know/s/77142

Joseph H. Jackson Bio https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/joseph-h-jackson

1842 Slander case https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/summons-3-december-1842-b-city-of-nauvoo-v-davis-for-slander-of-js/1

Startling Disclosures August 1844 by Joseph H. Jackson http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1844Jack.htm

Secular Society of MIT w/ Sohan Dsouza http://ssomit.mit.edu/ https://www.facebook.com/secularsocietyofmit/ http://calendar.mit.edu/event/ssomit_exmormon#.XGY1aVxKg2w

Show links:

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