I also heard he was the one who introduced Sidney Rigdon to Joseph Smith. And he was a key participant in Joseph's failed money digging exercise in Salem, MA.
The story that Pratt's murder in some way provoked the Mountain Meadows Massacre is much repeated fiction. (Someone in the Baker-Fancher wagon train supposedly laughed at Pratt's death and claimed they had the actual pistol that killed Pratt in their possession -- which in turn enraged the Saints -- thus leading to a "justifiable" act of revenge.) Again, IRRC, this tale did not appear in either the Army's or Judge Cradlebaugh's original reports. Instead, it surfaced years later as arrest warrants were issued for Lee (and others) as an explanation for the Saints' involvement in the atrocity.
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