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generationofvipers
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Date: May 08, 2018 12:22PM
He diverted rescue resources away from freezing handcart pioneers so that he make sure his cargo of tobacco and alcohol made it to Salt Lake before winter hit.
Will Bagley, author of "Blood of the Prophets" among other works and brother of Pat Bagley, was being interviewed on an itunes podcast about the Donner Party disaster. But every chance he got he ripped on Brigham Young.
Pretty interesting. I didn't know that about Brigham, and it might be the worst thing he ever did. He tried to blame Taylor for the disaster, but Taylor wasn't having any of it.
One quote from Bagley that I liked the best was "The more you know about Brigham Young, the less likeable that old con artist is."
The podcast was called know thyself and the parts are at 00:07:30 and then at 01:10:45 or so.
I also found this article today that Bagley wrote a while ago that goes into real depth about the handcart fiasco:
http://user.xmission.com/~research/central/handcart.pdf