On this episode, a fight breaks out between the Carthaginians and the Mormons of Nauvoo. Olive Amanda Smith Fullmer filed an affidavit charging her partner, Milton Cook, with bastardy (abandonment) and the Mormon Sheriff, Horace Eldridge, is granted a warrant for Cook’s arrest. When Eldridge arrives in Carthage, he’s confronted by the citizens and unable to serve the warrant. He returns to Nauvoo and gathers a posse of Nauvoo Legionnaires, including Stephen Markham, to descend on Carthage and affect the arrest once and for all. The ensuing confrontation creates chaos and pandemonium and the local media outlets battle it out in print for determining what actually happened.
Check out the updated Smith-entheogen theory paper here! https://www.academia.edu/40786304/The_entheogenic_origins_of_Mormonism_A_working_hypothesis https://akademiai.com/doi/full/10.1556/2054.2019.020
Links:
Olive Amanda Fullmer Smith https://www.geni.com/people/Olive-Fullmer/6000000002404621131
Milton Cook https://www.geni.com/people/Milton-Cook/6000000014559008144
Quincy Whig http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/whig1844.htm
Warsaw Message Jan 1844 http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1844.htm#0110
Stephen Markham https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/stephen-markham
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy by Merina Smith https://books.google.com/books?id=ydS9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT128&lpg=PT128&dq=milton+cook+mormon&source=bl&ots=KeRqfRmEcz&sig=ACfU3U0FTrdRqTAmDw1y-Hz34Qnvq2ePOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz9cWg5dPlAhWxFjQIHbWWCt0Q6AEwAHoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=milton%20cook%20mormon&f=false
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