Item Detail
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27628
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10
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95
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English
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Mountain Meadows Massacre : Collected Legal Papers
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Two-volume Set
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Oklahoma
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University of Oklahoma Press
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1096
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On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims.
The editors of this two-volume collection combed public and private manuscript collections across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. The documents they unearthed, transcribed and presented here, cover a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre in 1857 to the dismissal of the last indictment against a perpetrator in 1896. Volume 1 tells the first half of the story: the records of the investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments, eight of which never resulted in a trial conviction. Volume 2 details the legal proceedings against the one man indicted to go to trial, John D. Lee. Lee’s trials led to his confession and conviction, and ultimately to his execution on the massacre site in 1877, all documented in Volume 2.
Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western U.S. history. [Publisher]
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Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
Invoking the Name of the Lord : A Quantitative Study
Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton Bernhisel
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 8 : February–November 1841
The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath -
A Biographical Study of Isaac Chauncey Haight, Early Religious and Civic Leader of Southern Utah
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume 3, 1853-57
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830-1847
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume Two, 1848-1852
A History of Beaver County
A History of Garfield County
A History of Piute County
A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks
A History of the Federal and Territorial Court Conflicts in Utah, 1851-1874
American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
An Analysis of the Nature of the Salt Lake County Probate Court's Role in Aggravating Anti-Mormon Sentiment 1852-1855
Annals of the Southern Utah Mission
Army of Israel : Mormon Battalion Narratives
A Trial Furnace : Southern Utah's Iron Mission
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
A Web of Trails : Bringing History Home
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Brigham Young : The American Moses
Carpetbaggers, Reprobates, and Liars : Federal Judges and the Utah War
Church Chronology
Crusade against Theocracy : The Reminiscence of Judge Jacob Smith Boreman of Utah, 1872-1877
Delegate John M. Bernhisel, Salt Lake Physician Following the Civil War
Deseret News Church Almanac
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Fame Meets Infamy : The Powell Survey and Mountain Meadows Participants, 1870-1873
Garland Hurt, the American Friend of the Utahs
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
Hero or Traitor : A Biographical Study of Charles Wesley Wandell
History of Utah
History of Utah 1540-1886
Innocent Blood : Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
"I Would to God" : A Personal History of Isaac Haight
Jacob Hamblin : A Narrative of His Personal Experience
Jacob Hamblin, the Peacemaker
John Doyle Lee : Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat
Journal of the Southern Indian Mission : Diary of Thomas D. Brown
Journals of John D. Lee 1846-47 and 1859
King of Beaver Island : The Life and Assassination of James Jesse Strang
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Lights and Shadows of Mormonism
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Legend and a Monumental Crime
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Memories That Live : Utah County Centennial History
Mormonism Unveiled : The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young
Mormon Settlement
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Mountain Meadows Massacre : The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collections
Mountain Meadows Witness : The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith
New Light on the Mountain Meadows Caravan
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
On the Ragged Edge : The Life and Times of Dudley Leavitt
Our Pioneer Heritage
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
Popular History of Utah
Reminiscences of Early Utah
San Bernardino : The Rise and Fall of a California Community
Silas Sanford Smith
Social Accommodation in Utah
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]
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Cradlebaugh Court (1859) : A Study of Early Mormon-Gentile Misunderstanding
The Demise of the San Bernardino Mormon Community, 1851-1857
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The Life and Times of Joseph Fish, Mormon Pioneer
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Prophet and His Harem ; or, an Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre : An Analytical Narrative Based on Participant Confessions
The Mountain Meadows Massacre : A Special Report by J.H. Carleton, Bvt Major U.S.A., Captain 1st Dragoons, 1859
The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Who Were Guilty of the Crime?
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The United States Marshalls in Utah Territory to 1896
The Utah Expedition
The Utah Expedition, 1857-1858
The Utah Federal Courts and the Areas of Conflict, 1850-1896
The Utah Military Frontier, 1872-1912 : Forts Cameron, Thornburgh and Duchesne
Unmasking Another Hofmann Forgery
Utah and the Mormons : The History, Government, Doctrines, Customs, and Prospects of the Latter-day Saints
Utah As It Is, with a Comprehensive Statement of Utah As It Was
Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884
Utah Medical History : Some Reminiscences
Utah Place Names : A Comprehensive Guide to the Origin of Geographic Names
Utah since statehood, historical and biographical