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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 expose, Massacre at
Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of
a key event in American religious history."
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.
The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at
Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows
was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the
grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in
southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a
California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated
sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the
aftermath of this atrocity. Vengeance Is Mine documents southern
Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing
witnesses and spreading lies. Investigations by both governmental
and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political
wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were
captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines
the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials,
the second ending in Lee's conviction. Turley and Brown explore the
fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham
Young, and assess what role, if any, Young played in the cover-up.
And they trace the fates of the other perpetrators, including the
harrowing end of Nephi Johnson, who screamed "Blood! Blood! Blood!"
in his delirium as he was dying, more than sixty years after the
massacre. Turley and Brown also tell the story of the massacre's
few survivors: seventeen children who witnessed the slaughter and
eventually returned to Arkansas, where the ill-fated wagon train
originated. Vengeance Is Mine brings the hitherto untold story of
this shameful episode in Mormon and Utah history to its dramatic
conclusion.
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.
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 expose, Massacre at
Mountain Meadows provides theclearest and most accurate account of
a key event in American religious history.
Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library Fact, Fiction,
and Polygamyrescues an exciting true tale of international intrigue
from 150 years of neglect. It tells of the travails of Henrietta
Polydore, a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English
Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic,
the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains by her Mormon-convert
mother and aunt to live in Salt Lake City under an alias in the
polygamous household of a Latter-day Saint leader with five wives
and twenty children. Midway through Henrietta's secret sojourn in
the City of the Saints, she was caught up in the Utah War of
1857-1858, President Buchanan's attempt to suppress a perceived
Mormon rebellion with nearly one-third of the U.S. Army. MacKinnon
and Alford present Henrietta's story through their editing for
twenty-first-century readers of a "lost" non-fiction novel about
Polydore's saga published during 1877 in Boston's Atlantic Monthly.
This short piece-dubbed a "novella" and titled The Ward of the
Three Guardians-was the work of Albert G. Browne, Jr., a Boston
Brahmin with two Harvard degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of
Heidelberg, who, at age twenty-three, was in Utah as the war
correspondent for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune. Browne
reported on and then became part of Henrietta's story using his
legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in
England through a sensational legal case. Her return home precluded
an early, perhaps polygamous, marriage as a teenager. Fact,
Fiction, and Polygamy is the work of two historian-editors with
disparate backgrounds working collaboratively as professional
colleagues as well as personal friends. MacKinnon, an independent
historian from upstate New York now living in California, is a
Presbyterian, veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and former vice
president of General Motors Corporation. Colonel Alford, a
Latter-day Saint and Utahn, is a professor teaching at Brigham
Young University after a thirty-year career as a U.S. Army officer
with teaching assignments at the U.S. Military Academy and National
Defense University. MacKinnon and Alford have brought their decades
of research on the subject to bear on a re-publication of Ward that
helps readers separate Browne's telling of Henrietta's story into
its strands of fact and fiction. Sit back and savor Albert Browne's
newly recovered tale and its rich blend of fact and fantasy. With
the guidance of editors MacKinnon and Alford, determining the
difference is half the fun and much the value of revisiting The
Ward of the Three Guardians. Number Seventeen in the Series Utah,
the Mormons, and the West Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott
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