Episode Details

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our FLDS series with the birth of Mormon polygamy! We’ll get into Joseph's claimed angel with a drawn sword, the secret plural “marriages” starting with Fanny Alger in the Smiths’ own home, and how that double life eventually blew up in Nauvoo with teen brides, polyandrous sealings, and Emma getting gaslit while being told to accept “all those” wives or be destroyed. From John C. Bennett’s “spiritual wife” scam, to the Nauvoo Expositor calling Joseph out, to the city council literally destroying a printing press and Joseph declaring martial law, we’ll follow the chaos straight into Carthage Jail and the gunfire that left Joseph and Hyrum dead.

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