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Turley, Richard E., Jr.;Walker, Ronald W.;Leonard, Glen M.

Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy

Oxford

Oxford University Press

2008

[2009 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]
[2008 Association for Mormon Letters Special Award in History]

"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." [Publisher's abstract]

Mountain Meadows Massacre
Award Winner
Crime and violence

Across the Desert in 1858 : Thomas L. Kane’s Mediating Mission and the Mormon Women Who Made It Possible
A "Distinction Between Mormons and Americans" : Mormon Indian Missionaries, Federal Indian Policy, and the Utah War
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Kingdom Transformed : Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity : Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900
Chief Kanosh : Champion of Peace and Forbearance
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Conflict and Fraud: Utah Public Land Surveys in the 1850s, the Subsequent Investigation and Problems with the Land Disposal System
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Critical Foundations of Mormon Apologetics
Death to Seducers! Examples of Latter-day Saint-led Extralegal Justice in Historical Context
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Early Mormon Missionary Work in Hong Kong : The Letters of James Lewis to Apostle and Church Historian George A. Smith, 1853-1855
Enlisted for the Duration : Discovering the Utah War, Writing At Sword's Point
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Fame Meets Infamy : The Powell Survey and Mountain Meadows Participants, 1870-1873
Far from Zion : The Frayed Ties between California's Gold Rush Saints and LDS President Brigham Young
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
History Never Stops
Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
“I Lead the Way, Like Columbus” : Joseph Smith, Genocide, and Revelatory Ambiguity
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
In defence of Gods people if Need bee : Brigham Young Hampton
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
In the Literature of the Lamanites : (Un)settling Mormonism in the Literary Record of Native North America, 1830–1930
Island Adventures : The Hawaiian Mission of Francis A. Hammond
"I Was Not Ready to Die Yet" : William Stowell's Utah War Ordeal
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Latter-Day Prophets : Their Lives, Teachings, and Testimonies
L'Église mormonne et ses Livres Sacrés
Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Minding the House of Church History : Reflections of a Church Historian at the End of His Time
Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector : A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861
Mormonism
Mormonism and its Historians: The State of the Field
Mormonism and Sexual Violence
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormon Studies and Method : The Rigors of the Academic Study of Religion and the Maturity of Mormon Studies
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Mountain Meadows Massacre : Collected Legal Papers
"My Dear Friend" : The Friendship and Correspondence of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
Nauvoo's Inner Circle of Thirty-Two Men Who Accepted "Celestial Marriage"
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Ogden's Forgotten City Hospital
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Patterns of Mormon Commitment Rhetoric
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Problems with Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources
Race and Latter-day Saint Art
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Real vs. Rumor : How to Dispel Latter-day Myths
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Rediscovery of a Cemetery : The Carterville, Iowa, Story
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Restless Pilgrim : Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Rumors of Secession in the Utah Territory : 1847–61
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
'Save the Emigrants' : Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The Andrew Jenson Collection
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The David H. Morris Collection
The Historian's Craft : A Conversation with Richard Lyman Bushman
The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message of the Book of Mormon
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 8 : February–November 1841
The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Mormon Church in Utah
The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
The Mormons and America's Empires
The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey
The Professionalization of the Archives of the LDS Church and the State of Utah: An Interview with Jeffery O. Johnson
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
The Twenty-Fourth of July: An Overview of Utah’s State Holiday, 1849-2022
"They Do Things Differently There" : Understanding a Polygamous "Foreign Country"
Thomas L. Kane's 1858 Utah War Mission : Presidential Ingratitude and Manipulation
"To Merge Them into More Wholesome Social Elements" : The Greater Reconstruction and Its Place in Utah
Touching History: A Grandson's Memories of Felix Marion Jones and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
True and Faithful : Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian
Uniting Faith and History
Useful to the Church and Kingdom: The Journals of James H. Martineau, Pioneer and Patriarch, 1850-1918, Volume: 1
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
When Buffalo Bill Came to Utah
"When I Think of War I Am Sick at Heart" : Latter Day Saint Nonparticipation in World War I
Whither Mormons' Lost Cause? : Collective Historical Memory in Comparison
William Vorhease and the Murder of Joseph Smith
Writing Brigham Young
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology

A Biographical Study of Isaac Chauncey Haight, Early Religious and Civic Leader of Southern Utah
A Book of Commandments for the Government of the Church of Christ
A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
A Century of 'Mormonism' in Great Britain
A Clash of Interests : Interior Department and Mountain West 1863-1896
A Historical Analysis of Territorial Government in Utah under Alfred Cumming, 1857-1861
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
A History of Iron County : Community Above Self
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Clay County, Missouri, from 1833 to 1837
'Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen' : The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838-39
American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
Ancestry Biography and Family of George A. Smith
Andrew Hunter Scott : Builder in the Kingdom
An Historical Epilogue
An Interpretive Study of Mormon Millennialism during the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on Millennial Developments in Utah
Anti-Mormon Mob Violence and the Rhetoric of Law and Order in Early Mormon History
A Profile of the Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1849-1900
A Ram in the Thicket : The Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War
Army of Israel : Mormon Battalion Narratives
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Autobiography of Andrew Jenson : Assistant Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Web of Trails : Bringing History Home
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
Best Prepared Pioneers in the West
Biography : Francis Marion Lyman, 1840-1916, Apostle, 1880-1916
Brigham Himself : An Autobiographical Recollection
Brigham's Destroying Angel
Brigham Young and Mormon Indian Policies : The Formative Period, 1836-1851
Brigham Young, the Colonizer
Brigham Young, the Man and His Work
Builders of the Kingdom: George A. Smith, John Henry Smith, George Albert Smith
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Carpetbag Rule : Territorial Government in Utah
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Celebrating Cultural Identity : Pioneer Day in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Church Chronology
Clarification of Boggs' 'Order' and Joseph Smith's Constitutionalism
Conquerors of the West : Stalwart Mormon Pioneers : Vol. 1-4
Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
Daniel Hanmer Wells and Events of His Time
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
Documents Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &c. In Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons
Dudley Leavitt : Pioneer to Southern Utah
Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography
Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History
Epilogue to the Utah War : Impact and Legacy
Establishing and Maintaining Land Ownership in Utah Prior to 1869
Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Forgotten Relief Societies, 1844-67
Fort Limhi : The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858
Forty Years among the Indians
From High Hopes to Despair : The Missouri Period, 1831-1839
From Isolation to Destination : The History of Washington County
Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850
Grandmother's Stories of Early Days
History of Kane County
History of Santa Clara, Utah : A Blossom in the Desert
History of Utah, 1847-1869
House of Mourning : A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
'I'd Rather Have Some Roasting Ears' : The Peregrinations of Geroge Armstrong Hicks
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier
Jacob Hamblin : A Narrative of His Personal Experience
Jacob Hamblin : Mormon Apostle to the Indians
Jacob Hamblin, the Peacemaker
John Doyle Lee : Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Journals of Forty-Niners Salt Lake to Los Angeles
Journey to Zion : From the Journal of Erastus Snow
Lamanite Mission of 1830-1831
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Longhorns Come to Utah
Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847
Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
Men with a Mission : The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles 1837-1841
Millenarianism and the Early Mormon Mind
Monuments to Courage : A History of Beaver County
Mormon 'Deliverance' and the Closing of the Frontier
Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unveiled
Mormon Land Rights in Caldwell and Daviess Counties and the Mormon Conflict of 1838 : New Findings and New Understandings
Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833
Mormon Redress Petitions : Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Mormons and Their Historians
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852 : "And Should We Die"
My Best for the Kingdom : History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
New Light on the Mountain Meadows Caravan
On the Ragged Edge : The Life and Times of Dudley Leavitt
Open Hand and Mailed Fist : Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52
Orrin Porter Rockwell : Man of God, Son of Thunder
Over the Rim : the Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850
Pahute Indian Homelands
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's Diary : Also, Thrilling Experiences of Pre-frontier Life Among Indians, Their Traits, Civil and Savage, and Part of Autobiography, Inter-related to his Father's
Pioneers of Southern Utah
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Population Growth in the Mormon Core Area : 1847-90
Prairie Schooner Lady : The Journal of Harriet Sherrill Ward, 1853
Prayer Circle
President Young Writes Jefferson Davis about the Gunnison Massacre Affair
Problems with Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources
"Pursue, Retake & Punish" : The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quixotic Mediator : Thomas L. Kane and the Utah War
Raining Pitchforks : Brigham Young as Preacher
Reminiscences of Early Utah
Reminiscences of John R. Young
Rioting in Its Jacksonian Setting
San Bernardino : The Rise and Fall of a California Community
'Save the Emigrants' : Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Search for Sanctuary : Brigham Young and the White Mountain Expedition
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe : Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Stand By My Servant Joseph : The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration
Supplement to the Lecture on the Mountain Meadows Massacre [by Charles W. Penrose]
"Surely This City is Bound to Shine" : Descriptions of Salt Lake City by Western-Bound Emigrants, 1849-1868
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Buchanan Spoils System and the Utah Expedition : Careers of W. M. F. Magraw and John M. Hockaday
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The Contributions of George A. Smith to the Establishment of the Mormon Society in the Territory of Utah
The Cotton Mission
The Diary of Charles Lowell Walker
The Election Day Battle at Gallatin
The Essential Parley P. Pratt
The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County Missouri
The Far Southwest : 1846-1912, A Territorial History
The Great Platte River Road : The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
The Great Salt Lake Trail
The History of Emigration Canyon : Gateway to Salt Lake Valley
The Impact of the Gunnison Massacre on Mormon-Federal Relations : Colonel Edward Jenner Steptoe's Command in Utah Territory, 1854-1855
The Journal of Lorenzo Brown, 1823-1900
The Journals of Addison Pratt
The Lady in the Ore Bucket : a History of Settlement and Industry in the Tri-Canyon Area of the Wasatch Mountains
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Legacy of Conquest : The Unbroken Past of the American West
The Life and Works of William Horne Dame
The Lion and the Emperor : The Mormons, The Hudson Bay Company, and Vancouver Island, 1846-1858
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Missouri Persecutions
The Mormon Battalion : U.S. Army of the West 1846-1848
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Missionary of the Nineteenth Century
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Orson Pratt Journals
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 2: Journal, 1832-1842
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Political and Social Realities of Zion's Camp
The Private Papers and Diary of Thomas Leiper Kane. A Friend of the Mormons
The Religious and Family Background of Brigham Young
The Silver State : Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted
The Territories and the United States, 1861-1890 : Studies in Colonial Administration
The Unsolicited Chronicler : An Account of the Gunnison Massacre, Its Causes and Consequences, Utah Territory, 1847-1859
The Walker War : Defense and Conciliation as Strategy
The Wilson Letters : 1839-1845
To Feed a Tree in Zion : Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre
Two Rare Missouri Documents
'Unquestionably Authentic and Correct in Every Detail' : Probing John I. Ginn and His Remarkable Utah War Story
Utah and the Nation
Utah Place Names : A Comprehensive Guide to the Origin of Geographic Names
Utah's Black Hawk War
Utah's History
Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Valiant in the Faith : Gardner and Sarah Snow and Their Family
Wakara Meets the Mormons, 1848-52 : A Case Study in Native American Accommodation
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out" : Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s
Zion is Fled : The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri