Massacre at Mountain Meadows : an American tragedy /
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 isol...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| ISBN: | 9780199721993 0199721998 9780199830978 0199830975 1281515043 9781281515049 9786611515041 6611515046 |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: a picture of human suffering Mountain Meadows, May 1859
- Exiles from freedom New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830-1846
- Peals of thunder Utah, 1847-1857
- No more submit to oppression Silver Lake, July 24, 1857
- Avoid all excitement, but be ready Salt Lake city to Parowan, July 24-August 8, 1857
- Preaching a military discourse Southern Utah, August 9-21, 1857
- A splendid train Arkansas to Utah, emigration season, 1857
- Restless and excited begins Northern Utah, July-August 1857
- We have better claim Salt Lake to Filmore, August 1857
- Men have magnified a natural circumstance Corn Creek to Parowan, late August-early September 1857
- Make it an Indian massacre: Cedar city, July 24-September 5 1857
- A fearful responsibility Cedar City and Southwest, September 5-7, 1857
- Finish his dirty job Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7-10,1857
- Decoyed out and destroyed Mountain Meadows, September 10-11, 1875
- Too late to back water Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, September 11-13, 1857
- Epilogue: under sentence of death Beaver to Mountain Meadows, March 20-23 1877
- Appendixes: A. The emigrants
- B. The emigrants' property
- C. The militiamen
- D. The Indians.