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Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
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Chapel Hill, NC
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University of North Carolina Press
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"On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Meadows, Utah. News of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it became known, sent shockwaves through the western frontier of the United States, reaching the nation's capital and eventually crossing the Atlantic. In the years prior to the massacre, Americans dubbed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the 'Mormon problem' as it garnered national attention for its 'unusual' theocracy and practice of polygamy. In the aftermath of the massacre, many Americans viewed Mormonism as a real religious and physical threat to white civilization. Putting the Mormon Church on trial for its crimes against American purity became more important than prosecuting those responsible for the slaughter.
Religious historian Janiece Johnson analyzes how sensational media attention used the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to enflame public sentiment and provoke legal action against Latter-day Saints. Ministers, novelists, entertainers, cartoonists, and federal officials followed suit, spreading anti-Mormon sentiment to collectively convict the Mormon religion itself. This troubling episode in American religious history sheds important light on the role of media and popular culture in provoking religious intolerance that continues to resonate in the present." [Summary from Amazon] -
American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Seething Cauldron of Controversy : The First Trial of John D. Lee, 1875
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Autobiography of Jane Elizabeth Manning James
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Buchanan, Popular Sovereignty, and the Mormons : The Election of 1856
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
Disciplinary Democracy : Mormon Violence and the Construction of the Modern American State
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Hand-Book on Mormonism
History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
History of Utah 1540-1886
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
House of Mourning : A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Innocent Blood : Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Journal of Captain Albert Tracy, 1858-1860
Juanita Brooks : Mormon Woman Historian
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Legend and a Monumental Crime
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon History
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism : The Islam of America
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism Unveiled : The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young
Mormon Memories and the Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
Mountain Meadows Massacre : Collected Legal Papers
Mountain Meadows Massacre : The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collections
Mountain Meadows Witness : The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
One Nation Under Gods : A History of the Mormon Church
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Playing Jane : Re-presenting Black Mormon Memory through Reenacting the Black Mormon Past
Polygamy: Or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism
Problems with Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Recollections of the Mountain Meadow Massacre
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Remembering Mountain Meadows : Collective Violence and the Manipulation of Social Boundaries
Reminiscences of Early Utah
Runaway Wives, 1830-1860
Saints or Sinners? The Evolving Perceptions of Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah Historiography
'Save the Emigrants' : Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Sensational Virtue : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The Affair of the "Runaways" : Utah's First Encounter with the Federal Officers : Part 1
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Angel & the Sorcerer : The remarkable story of the occult origins of Mormonism and the rise of Mormons in American politics
"The Bloodiest Drama Ever Perpetrated on American Soil" : Staging the Mountain Meadows Massacre for Entertainment
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Fruits of Mormonism
The Great Salt Lake Trail
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Letters of an Apostate Mormon to his Son
The Life and Confession of John D. Lee, the Mormon
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Monster : Or, The Story of Mormonism
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Problem : An Appeal to the American People
The Mormon Prophet and His Harem ; or, an Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
The Mormon Puzzle ; and How to Solve It
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints : A Contemporary History
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The People Are "Hogaffed or Humbugged" : The 1851-52 National Reaction to Utah's
"Runaway" Officers : Part 2
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
There is No Mormon Trail of Tears : Roots, Removals, and Reconstructions
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image
The Utah Expedition, 1857-58
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
Through Bonds of Love : In the Shadow of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
To Feed a Tree in Zion : Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
Utah's Black Pioneers : 1847-1869
Violence Across the Land : Vigilantism and Extralegal Justice in the Utah Territory
What's New in Latter-day Saint Church History? : Recent Developments in the Family and Church History Department
Wife No. 19
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Zealots of Zion
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900