Did you know that Brigham Young called people on official church missions to pan for filthy lucre? Come learn about the Gold Mission with Lindsay and Bryan. SHOWNOTES:

• The Mormon Gold-Mining Mission of 1849 by Eugene Campbell
• Bancroft’s history of Utah
• Kenneth Owens, Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches
• Kenneth Davies and Lorin Hansen, Mormon Gold - Mormons in the California Gold Rush Contributing to the Development of California and the Monetary Solvency of Early Utah
• Erwin Gudde, Bigler's Chronicle of the West
• M. Guy Bishop, Henry William Bigler: Soldier, Gold Miner, Missionary, Chronicler