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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 theclearest and most accurate account of
a key event in American religious history.
Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane first met on the plains of western
Iowa in 1846 The Mormon prophet and the Philadelphia reformer would
go on to exchange more than one hundred letters over the next three
decades. This annotated collection of their correspondence reveals
a great deal about these two remarkable men, while also providing
crucial insight into nineteenth-century Mormonism and the
historical moment in which the movement developed. Until his death
in 1877, Young guided the religious, economic, and political life
of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the
West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military
confrontation with the American nation. Young relied on Kane, 21
years his junior, as his most trusted outside adviser, making Kane
the most important non-Mormon in the history of the Church. In
return, no one influenced the direction of Kane's life more than
Young. The surviving letters offer crucial insights into Young's
personal life and views as well as his actions as a political and
religious leader. The correspondence reveals the strategies of the
Latter-day Saints in relating to American culture and government
during these crucial years when the "Mormon Question" was a major
political, cultural, and legal issue. The letters also shed
important light on the largely forgotten "Utah War" of 1857-58,
triggered when President James Buchanan dispatched a military
expedition to ensure federal supremacy in Utah and replace Young
with a non-Mormon governor. The Prophet and the Reformer offers a
complete reproduction of the exchange between Young and Kane, and
provides an introduction to each letter that contextualizes and
analyzes it.
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