The massacre at Haun's Mill is a defining moment in the history of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormon Church.
The Mormons were at war in 1838. They had come to Missouri at the
urging of their prophet, Joseph Smith, but after a short time found
themselves at odds with the original settlers. Armed militia, both
Mormon and gentile, roamed the country. On October 7, 1838,
Governor Lillburn Boggs issued his infamous order: "The Mormons
must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from
the state."
Gathered in this new work are eyewitness testimonies of the
massacre and its aftermath by those who were on the scene. The
accounts of Joseph Young, Amanda Smith, Willard Gilbert Smith,
Austin Hammer, Artemisia Sidnie Meyers, Nathan Kinsman Knight,
Thomas McBride, Isaac Laney, Olive Ames, and others are
heart-rending and vivid.
On October 30, 1838, a group of Missouri militia attacked the
small Mormon settlement at Haun's Mill on Shoal Creek, killing
seventeen men and boys and wounding eleven men, one woman, and one
child. The conflict between the Missourians and the Mormons was in
many ways inevitable. The Mormons had their own business and
economic system. Clannish people, they voted in a bloc, thus
tipping elections in their favor. They had a "different" religion
and considered their faith superior to all others. Unlike most of
their neighbors, they were friendly to the Indians and were thought
to be abolitionists. The Missourians saw them as interlopers to be
driven out.
Set in context by the author, these documentary accounts
dramatically portray the suffering of the Saints during and after
the episode. An important event in Latter-day Saints history that
helped mold Mormon attitudes and posturing toward the outside world
in following decades, the Haun's Mill Massacre still resonates
today in the hearts and minds of Mormons as a manifestation of
religious persecution.
The book has a bibliography and index. It is bound in wine linen
cloth and has a foil stamped spine and front cover.
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