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Brigham Young’s correspondence and firsthand pioneer accounts paint a different picture of the Willie and Martin handcart disaster.
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Recommended Church history research:

1. The research that led to the Church’s policy change on Blacks and the priesthood: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V08N01_13.pdf

2. The author who wrote the above paper on Blacks and the priesthood discusses the development of his research and interaction with Church leaders:
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=mormonhistory (starting on page 229 in the document, which is page 233 in the PDF)

3. Cheat the Asylum of a Victim: George Albert Smith’s 1909–12 Breakdown: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1056&context=mormonhistory
(on page 122 in the PDF)

3. When Brigham Young ordained his 11-year old son an apostle:
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V35N04_125.pdf

4. “The People of God Disciplined By Trials—Atonement By the Shedding of Blood—Our Heavenly Father—A Privilege Given to All the Married Sisters in Utah
A Discourse by President Brigham Young, Delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, September 21, 1856.”
https://jod.mrm.org/4/51

5. “You nasty apostates, clear out” – Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s
http://files.lib.byu.edu/mormonmigration/articles/YouNastyApostatesJMHVOL30_NO2.pdf

Handcart-Related Information:

ONE LONG FUNERAL MARCH: A REVISIONIST’S VIEW OF THE MORMON HANDCART DISASTERS
https://user.xmission.com/~research/central/handcart.pdf

Research debunking a persistent rumor about handcart pioneers
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3772&context=byusq

Gathering the Poor
An Address by President Brigham Young, Delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Sep. 16, 1855.
https://jod.mrm.org/3/1

Elizabeth Sermon Camm’s letter to her children: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/sources/16898268782568739532-eng/elizabeth-w-sermon-camm-letter-san-francisco-california-to-my-dear-children-1892-march-16?firstName=Edward&surname=Martin

John Chislett:
https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/sources/86169/john-chislett-narrative-in-the-rocky-mountain-saints-a-full-and-complete-history-of-the-mormons-by-thomas-b-h-stenhouse-1873-313-32


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