Ep 9 🩺Dr. Priddy Meeks : 🥶 Frostbite, Polygamy💍💍💍 & Cayenne Pepper🌶

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In the rugged wilderness of early Utah Territory, frontier medicine collided with faith, fire, and sheer grit. This episode follows the remarkable journey of Dr. Priddy Meeks, one of the earliest pioneer physicians of the American West. From crossing into the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847 to launching the Church-backed “Council of Health,” Meeks blended botanic remedies, spiritual conviction, and raw innovation to serve a growing people.

But it’s the winter of 1857 that delivers the most unforgettable chapter: a frostbitten soldier, a pot of cayenne pepper tea, and a refusal to amputate. Through pain, perseverance, and an unconventional remedy, Dr. Meeks performs a healing that defies belief.

Along the way, we explore Utah’s brush with war, the iron mission in Parowan, the explosive tensions over plural marriage, and one doctor’s steady hand through it all.

True ancestry, told like legend. Only on Family History Drama.

CHARACTERS
President James Knox Polk
Doctor Priddy Meeks
Sarah Mahurin
Jedediah M. Grant
Joseph B. Noble
General Winfield Scott (Old fuss & feathers)
Mormon Immigrants
Doctor William A Morse
Willard Richards
Phinehas Richards
Society of Health
Council of Health
Doctor Cannon
Deseret News
Arza Orson Adams
Thomas Bullock
Samual Hamilton
Edward Dalton
Governor Brigham Young
President Brigham Young
Territorial Governor of Utah
Reed Smoot
Senator Julius C. Burrows
Senator Boies Penrose
President Buchanan
Johnston’s Army
William P. MacKinnon
Mary Jane McCleve Meeks
Joseph Smith
Hyrum Smith
Joseph Meeks
Margaret Jane Meeks
James McCann
Africa
California
Samual Thompson

LOCATIONS
Texas
Oregon
Valley of the Great Salt Lake
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri
Centralist Republic of Mexico
Central America
Mexico City
Hall of Montezuma
Vera Cruz
Mexico
United States
Territory of Utah
Bountiful, Utah
Provo, Utah
Manti, Utah
San Bernadino, California
Ogden, Utah
Little Salt Lake Valley
Parowan Valley
Great Salt Lake City
Center Creek, Utah
Paragonah, Utah
Illinois
Red Creek, Utah


LINKS
Map https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/7917165/maps-that-explain-americaMexican American War https://youtu.be/tkdF8pOFUfI
https://newrepublic.com/article/104239/the-network-mormons-potomac-dc

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