Item Detail
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17423
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5
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English
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'Unquestionably Authentic and Correct in Every Detail' : Probing John I. Ginn and His Remarkable Utah War Story
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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fall 2004
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72
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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322-342
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Two typed, unpublished manuscripts of the experiences of John I. Ginn provide a near-unique perspective on events surrounding the Utah War. As a civilian army employee, captive of the Nauvoo Legion, and one of the first non-Mormons to see the remnants of the carnage at Mountain Meadows, Ginn's reminiscences have obvious historical value. Historians have pulled from his writings for the past seventy years, considering his account to be authentic and correct. MacKinnon questions this conclusion and suggests that the manuscript accounts have significant limitations, strong biases, and an ambiguous provenance. Nevertheless, MacKinnon maintains that a great historical harvest awaits the scholar who is willing to separate the "wheat" from the "chaff" in Ginn's narrative.
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