Item Detail
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25408
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English
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The Ballad of the "Mountain Meadows Massacre"
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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333-336
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A new version of the ballad of the Mountain Meadows Massacre came to the author's attention in the spring of 1954, in the little southern Utah town of Blanding. With a great deal of prodding he succeeded in getting a rancher, a lifelong inhabitant of Blanding, to sing the author the version which he remembered his father singing. He refused, however, to let the author use his name for fear of jeopardizing his status in the community. Frequent requests to use his name have been turned down, and the task has been, from a scholarly point of view, to find someone else who has heard the ballad in this form. [From the text]