Item Detail
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26554
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2
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English
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Yearning for Notoriety : Questionable and False Claimants to America's Worst Emigrant Massacre
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2016
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49
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1
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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27-39
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Bashore discusses 13 individuals, including Richard Sloan who, for the most part, enjoyed fleeting celebrity. Their stars flickered for just the shortest of moments in obscure newspaper articles. The moment of fame they achieved really was not for anything which they themselves either wrote or accomplished, but was almost wholly for what they claimed to have done. They latched on to the coattails of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre.