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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Two-Volume Set (Hardcover, Two-Volume Set ed.)
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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Two-Volume Set (Hardcover, Two-Volume Set 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 combed
public and private manuscript collections across the United States
to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the
massacre's aftermath. The documents they unearthed, transcribed and
presented here, cover a nearly forty-year history of investigation
and prosecution - from the first reports of the massacre in 1857 to
the dismissal of the last indictment against a perpetrator in 1896.
Volume 1 tells the first half of the story: the records of the
investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine
indictments, eight of which never resulted in a trial conviction.
Volume 2 details the legal proceedings against the one man indicted
to go to trial, John D. Lee. Lee's trials led to his confession and
conviction, and ultimately to his execution on the massacre site in
1877, all documented 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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