Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

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University of Oklahoma Press, 6 Σεπ 2012 - 550 σελίδες
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.
 

Περιεχόμενα

The Mountain Meadow
3
Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts
6
The BattleAx of the Lord
23
Political Hacks Robbers and Whoremongers
38
The Arkansas Travelers
55
I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell
73
We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move
95
The Knife and Tomahawk
123
Vengeance Is Mine
225
A Hideous Lethargic Dream
248
Lonely Dell
268
As False as the Hinges of Hell The Trials of John D Lee
287
He Died Game The Execution of John D Lee
307
The Mountain Meadow Dogs
323
Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough
348
The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
365

The Work of Death
140
The Scene of Blood and Carnage
156
Plunder
171
All Hell Is in Commotion
188
They Have Slain My Children
208
Victims of the Massacre
385
Notes
391
Bibliography
447
Index
475
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Will Bagley (1950–2021) was an independent historian who wrote about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley was the general editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley was a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and a Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 is the first of the two-volume Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails series.

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