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Radio Free Mormon

The Don Juan of Nauvoo

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we step into one of the most provocative and uncomfortable chapters ever written about Joseph Smith — “The Don Juan of Nauvoo,” from Dr. W. Wyl’s 1886 exposé. These are not modern critics looking backward with hindsight. These are men and women living in Utah in the late 1800s — people who… Read More »The Don Juan of Nauvoo

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody, Mormonism Live.

0:03.8

Mr. Radio Free Mormon, how are you tonight?

0:05.7

I'm great. Thank you, Bill.

0:07.5

Excellent. All right.

0:09.3

Hey, folks, we had a little bit of some sound issues, both RFM and I before the show.

0:14.7

Me first, and then I think when I corrected my stuff, suddenly he was having an issue.

0:19.0

So if you'll just respond in the live chat whether the

0:21.8

sound seems okay uh we'd very much appreciate that sound check from all of you uh tonight's episode

0:27.9

is the don juan of navu and uh i'll put uh you're waving at the audience or you waving at me to

0:35.3

it's about me, isn't it?

0:41.2

All right, well, okay.

0:44.6

So here it is, the Don Juan of Navu.

0:47.8

Anything you want to share before we jump into this RFM?

0:54.0

Well, your source material, you're going to go into that immediately aren't you yeah i think what i recall is

0:56.0

that you said to some fellow uh journeyed out to salt lake city with the intention of writing a book

1:03.0

and sat down and started interviewing people about their experiences in navu and then he wrote a book

1:10.1

with their experiences in it purportedly and divided

1:14.6

up into different chapters and one of the chapters was titled the Don Juan of Navu.

1:20.5

Yeah. So this is the thumbnail folks. It's got Joseph Smith there with a little bit of rosy lips and a little bit of

1:29.2

blush in the cheeks. So the book that this came from, had you ever heard of this? This is

1:36.0

Mormon portraits, Joseph Smith, Mormon portraits or the truth about Mormon leaders from 1830 to 1886.

1:44.9

This was written by a Dr. W. W.

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