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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Selected Trial Records and Aftermath (Hardcover, Volume 2 ed.)
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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Selected Trial Records and Aftermath (Hardcover, Volume 2 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. Of special importance in
Volume 2 are the transcripts of legal proceedings against John D.
Lee - many of which the editors have transcribed anew from the
shorthand. The two trials against Lee led to his confession,
conviction, and ultimately his execution on the massacre site in
1877, all documented in this volume. 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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