| Description |
xvi, 430 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Map on lining papers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-408) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: a picture of human suffering Mountain Meadows, May 1859 -- Exiles from freedom New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830-1846 -- Peals of thunder Utah, 1847-1857 -- No more submit to oppression Silver Lake, July 24, 1857 -- Avoid all excitement, but be ready Salt Lake city to Parowan, July 24-August 8, 1857 -- Preaching a military discourse Southern Utah, August 9-21, 1857 -- A splendid train Arkansas to Utah, emigration season, 1857 -- Restless and excited begins Northern Utah, July-August 1857 -- We have better claim Salt Lake to Filmore, August 1857 -- Men have magnified a natural circumstance Corn Creek to Parowan, late August-early September 1857 -- Make it an Indian massacre: Cedar city, July 24-September 5 1857 -- A fearful responsibility Cedar City and Southwest, September 5-7, 1857 -- Finish his dirty job Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7-10,1857 -- Decoyed out and destroyed Mountain Meadows, September 10-11, 1875 -- Too late to back water Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, September 11-13, 1857 -- Epilogue: under sentence of death Beaver to Mountain Meadows, March 20-23 1877 -- Appendixes: A. The emigrants -- B. The emigrants' property -- C. The militiamen -- D. The Indians. |
| Summary |
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 an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. |
| Subject |
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857.
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| Added Author |
Turley, Richard E., Jr., 1956-
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Leonard, Glen M., 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780195160345 |
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0195160347 |
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