Item Detail
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26133
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English
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"The Bloodiest Drama Ever Perpetrated on American Soil" : Staging the Mountain Meadows Massacre for Entertainment
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2012
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80
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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258-271
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In the 1870's, "Bill Cody was quick to capitalize on the public's interest in Mormonism and the [Mountain Meadows] massacre." About twenty years after the incident, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, along with Andrew Sheridan Burt, wrote a melodrama play that reenacts the Mountain Meadows Massacre. This article goes into the particulars of this play and how it affected the Mormon population as a whole.