Author: Ronald W. Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830975
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an exposé, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.
Author: Richard E. Turley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims. The editors of this two-volume collection of documents have combed public and private manuscript collections from across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre to the dismissal of the last indictment in 1896. Volume 1 contains the first half of the story: the records of the official investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments. Eight of those indictments never resulted in a trial conviction, but the one that did is documented extensively in Volume 2. Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western U.S. history.
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Frederick Hellwald
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368847120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: C. Vaughan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368810863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: Edward Jenkins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368811045
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368812270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: Henry Wilberforce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382501104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: National Association of Wool Manufacturers
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Category : Wool industry
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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