Episode 142 – Pistol Packin’ Porter in Prison
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
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