American Massacre The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

Name: American Massacre The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
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ISBN: 9780375726361

ISBN-10: 0375726365

ISBN-13: 9780375726361

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sally Denton

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In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally Denton makes a fiercely convincing argument that they were. The author–herself of Mormon descent–first traces the extraordinary emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century intrigues and tensions between their leaders and the U.S. government, fueled by the Mormons’ zealotry and…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Author's Note


Map


Prologue


Jacob Hamblin's Ranch, September 11, 1857


The Cairn, August 3, 1999



The Gathering



Palmyra, 1823



Kirtland/Far West, 1831



Nauvoo, 1840



Winter Quarters--Council Bluffs, 1846



Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849



Sevier River, October 26, 1853



The Passage



Harrison, March 29, 1857



Deseret, August 3, 1857



The Southern Trail, August 8-September 4, 1857



Mountain Meadows, September 7-11, 1857



The Legacy



Deseret, September 12, 1857



Camp Scott, November 16, 1857



Cedar City, April 7, 1859



Mountain Meadows, May 25, 1861



Mountain Meadows, March 23, 1877


Epilogue


Mountain Meadows Aftermath


Lonely Dell, January 22, 2002


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index