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Deseret Drama
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On Oct. 26, 1866 non-Mormon Dr. John k. Robinson was taken from his home and brutally murdered by a gang of Mormon men in the heart of Salt Lake City. In Season One of Deseret Dramas, criminal prosecutor and Mormon legal historian John Dinger, along with Sunstone's Lindsay Hansen Park discuss the brutal killing of Robinson and many others who lived outside the law in Mormonism. Join them for a limited-series podcast season where they discuss extralegal and vigilante justice throughout the history of early Mormonism.
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S2E6: Internet Killed the Microfilm Star: Mormon History Goes Digital
Oct 9, 202000:20:24Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S2E5: Very Funny, Moroni, I Know You’re that Salamander in the Box: Mormon History Gets Frozen Out
Oct 9, 202000:27:37Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S2E4: Stop Playing with Your Little History Factory: The Rise and Fall of Camelot
Oct 9, 202000:26:11Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S2E3: I Demand Satisfaction, Sir!: Dueling Histories and Grouchy Archivists
Oct 9, 202000:19:31Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S2E2: Mama, Don’t Let Your Histories Grow Up to Be Published: The Saga of History of the Church
Oct 9, 202000:26:47Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S2E1: The Body Count Is Piling Up: Writing Joseph Smith’s History
Oct 9, 202000:27:43Tap to summarizeSeason Two: The History of Mormon History Historiography—We are doing it…. Join the Sunstone Mormon History podcasters Bryan Buchanan and Lindsay Hansen Park for a special second season of Deseret Dramas. This miniseries will explore the history of how Mormon history was told and came to be.
Transcribe →S1E7: Back Door Parole
Apr 30, 202000:31:22Tap to summarizeIn the final episode Lindsay and John show the evolution of the Utah criminal justice system through a prison escape. Murderer Nick Haworth escaped from the Utah penitentiary after Joseph Smith’s spiritual son and prison guard, Zebulon Jacobs, was overpowered and severely beaten. Haworth was eventually found and returned to prison. What did the law do with those who escaped from prison? Was the legal system in line with the rest of the country, or did Haworth find he was subjected to mountain law? Listen to this episode here.
Transcribe →S1E6: Ark of Bulrushes
Apr 30, 202001:18:44Tap to summarizeLindsay and John head north to southeastern Idaho to discuss the murder of Gobo Fango. Fango was a freed African, probably Latter-day Saint, and sheep herder who got caught up in the range wars of the 1880s. They are joined by Amanda Hendrix-Komoto and Mica McGriggs who both discuss the violence and the treatment of disadvantaged groups in this time period. Was Fango murdered or trespassing on a cattleman’s land? Did his being Mormon help or hurt his case? Listen to this episode here.
Transcribe →S1E5: Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged
Apr 30, 202001:08:02Tap to summarizeThe legal system in frontier Utah was as wild as the wild wild west. Lindsay and John discuss the decades long battle between the federal and local court system, and the fall out it caused. Claims of abuse, corruption, and a murder ordered by Brigham Young are discussed. Who was right and who was wrong when the feds go up against the Mormons? Listen to this episode here.
Transcribe →S1E4: In Abraham’s Bosom
Apr 30, 202001:00:02Tap to summarizeLindsay and John continue their discussion of the murder of Dr. Robinson and the lynching of Thomas Coleman. They are joined by Mica McGriggs who helps discuss lynching and racism present in the West, and Michael McClane who describes the murder and old time Salt Lake City. Was Coleman’s murder part of a cover up, or just old fashioned extralegal justice and racism? Listen to this episode here.
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