Massacre at Mountain Meadows : an American tragedy / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard.
Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780195160345
- ISBN: 0195160347
- Physical Description: xvi, 430 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Map on lining papers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-408) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: A Picture of Human Suffering: Mountain Meadows, May 1859 3 -- 1 Exiles from Freedom: New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830-1846 6 -- 2 Peals of Thunder: Utah, 1847-1857 20 -- 3 No More Submit to Oppression: Silver Lake, July 24, 1857 33 -- 4 Avoid All Excitement, But Be Ready: Salt Lake City to Parowan, July 24-August 8, 1857 41 -- 5 Preaching a Military Discourse: Southern Utah, August 9-21, 1857 54 -- 6 A Splendid Train: Arkansas to Utah, Emigration Season, 1857 74 -- 7 Restless and Excited Beings: Northern Utah, July-August 1857 89 -- 8 We Have Better Claim: Salt Lake to Fillmore, August 1857 101 -- 9 Men Have Magnified a Natural Circumstance: Corn Creek to Parowan, Late August-Early September 1857 116 -- 10 Make It an Indian Massacre: Cedar City, July 24-September 5, 1857 129 -- 11 A Fearful Responsibility: Cedar City and Southwest, September 5-7, 1857 149 -- 12 Finish His Dirty Job: Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7-10, 1857 166 -- 13 Decoyed Out and Destroyed: Mountain Meadows, September 10-11, 1857 187 -- 14 Too Late to Back Water: Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, September 11-13, 1857 210 -- Epilogue: Under Sentence of Death: Beaver to Mountain Meadows, March 20-23, 1877 227 -- Appendix A Emigrants 243 -- Appendix B Emigrants' Property 251 -- Appendix C Militiamen 255 -- Appendix D Indians 265 -- Abbreviations Used in Notes 271.
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children.
