No Forgiveness: Murder in the Mormon Frontier with author Dan Neal

Name: No Forgiveness: Murder in the Mormon Frontier with author Dan Neal
Start: 2026-03-12T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-03-12T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 175 East Broadway Avenue, 83001

Schedule

Thu Mar 12 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

175 East Broadway Avenue, 83001 | Jackson, WY

History Jackson Hole invites the community to a talk by Dan Neal, author of “No Forgiveness – Family, Polygamy, Murder and Justice Among Idaho’s Pioneering Mormons." Meticulously researched and written, the book portrays a faith in transition, a frontier society under pressure, and, as one reviewer said, “the deeply human costs of religious idealism and social isolation.”
It also involves two major figures in the history of Jackson Hole: Elijah Nicholas “Uncle Nick” Wilson and his son Charles.
On July 5, 1911, Ellington Smith shot and killed his Darby, Idaho neighbor David S. Neal. The action culminated a feud over a spring creek the two farmers used. Both men were Mormon pioneers in the Teton Basin. Neal served the community as the principal of the Darby school. Smith was the son-in-law of Uncle Nick Wilson, whose clan established the first Mormon homesteads and farms in Jackson Hole.

Author Dan Neal is the grandson of David S. Neal, the former editor-in-chief of the Casper Star-Tribune, and has worked as a journalist in Washington state and Wyoming for more than 25 years and later directed the Equality State Policy Center. He lives in Casper.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at the Jackson Hole History Museum, 175 East Broadway Ave. The program begins at 6 p.m., followed by a book signing. Books will be available for purchase, before and after the event, in the Museum Store.