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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Initial Investigations and Indictments (Hardcover, Volume 1 ed.)
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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Initial Investigations and Indictments (Hardcover, Volume 1 ed.)
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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.
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