Porter Rockwell
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porter-rockwell-188-16586028
title:
Porter Rockwell
text:
Orrin Porter Rockwell was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port, The Destroying Angel of Mormondom and Modern-day Samson. Rockwell served as a bodyguard, and was a personal friend, of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith. After Smith's death in 1844, Rockwell became a bodyguard of his successor, Brigham Young, and traveled with him and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Salt Lake Va
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United States Marshal; friend of Joseph Smith (1813 or 1815–1878)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Rockwell
date created:
2003-11-21T01:39:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T07:59:43Z
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