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More Information on the. Mormon Mountain Meadows Massacre. Interior secretary designates Mountain Meadows Massacre site a historic landmark. Written by: Dan Metcalf Jr. June 3. 0, 2. 01. SALT. LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - U.
S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Mountain Meadows Massacre site in. Washington County as a national historic landmark.
The site is the location where approximately 1. Iron County district of the Utah Territorial.
Militia and some local Indians. The massacre took place on September 1. Arkansas during a time of hysteria in Utah among. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints who feared. U. S. 1. 1 is a special day for. Tulare On Sept. 1.
Mountain Meadows Massacre took place in southwest Utah when 1. Arkansas- based wagon train bound for Tulare were killed by a violent faction of. Mormon church, experts say. However, only in the 2. Movie released. in 2. A 2. 00. 6 movie, .
Alexander Fancher, who led the wagon train and who was. However, defenders of the wagon train fought back. Sept. At that point, the attackers removed. Indian disguises and posed as .
Mormons. considered outsiders enemies. Bigler, Will Bagley. Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier Series Volume 1.
Original sources documenting a frontier atrocity and its cover- up. The slaughter of a wagon train of some 1. Utah on. September 1.
Innocent Blood gathers key primary sources describing the. Mountain Meadows massacre. This wide array of. Bigler and Will Bagley have collected offer a.
American theocracy sought to justify or conceal the. These narratives make clear that, despite limited. Southern Paiute involvement, white men planned the killing and their. Mormon settlers to undertake the. The sources let. readers evaluate and track the evolution of such myths as the Paiutes'. Brigham Young's. ignorance of what happened, and John D.
Lee's sole culpability. Clearly. revealed is the part Utah authorities took in blocking the. Lee. Innocent Blood conveys the. It is a valuable sourcebook sure to prove.
About the Authors. David L. Bigler, former director of the Utah Board of State History, is. Utah, California. American history include Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon. Theocracy in the American West, 1. Will Bagley, an independent.
West, is author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham. Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre and editor of Pioneer Camp of. Saints: The Mormon Trail Journal of Thomas Bullock, 1. Army Brevet Major James H.
Carleton surveyed and investigated the. Congress that the Mormons were . As the emigrants fought back, the attackers utilized a new. They withdrew, then the Mormons removed their disguises and. The Mormons gained the trust of the.
Indians would not hurt them if they gave. Lee's testimony supports Carleton's report, but Lee.
Mormonism began in the early nineteenth century. Joseph Smith who wrote the Book of Mormon derived. From New York. Smith and his followers were continually forced west, their radical. In 1. 84. 4, Joseph.
Smith was killed by an anti- Mormon mob in Illinois, and Brigham Young. Prophet. The Mormons finally settled in the Utah. In the fragile pre- Civil War era, Young openly flaunted. In its attempt to develop its own theocratic. Maj. Carleton, in his report to Congress, describes the scene at. Mountain Meadows: women's hair caught in sage bushes, children's bones.
Over the. next century, it would be rebuilt and destroyed several times, standing. As. time passed, the descendants of the victims demanded a permanent. Brigham Young's descendants. In an attempt to keep both parties happy, the. Alexander. Fancher was attacked while en route to California. This event is known.
Mountain Meadows Massacre. The descendants made it clear to the government.
The LDS Church. hired Shane Baker, an archaeologist from Brigham Young University, to. Baker reportedly. On August 3, 1. 99. To everyone's surprise, it scooped up the bones. In her analysis of.
Novak found no evidence of knives used. Although the study cannot determine what weapons Paiutes. John D. Lee's testimony accusing Native Americans of. To Shannon Novak, the bones could.
After five weeks, Novak's analysis was cut short by an order. Utah, Mike Leavitt, that the bones be re- interred. September anniversary. Gene Sessions, historian and president of the Mountain Meadows. Association (an organization for descendants of the victims), says that.
Leavitt, whose grandfather participated in. Despite efforts of the Mormon Church to work with. Baker's fruitless survey and the. LDS Church. intentionally kept information from the public to coverup their. Sessions insists that . Others want to see the bones examined with DNA testing to.
While some have reconciled with the LDS Church, Novak claims. The tragedy stirs up deep.
Mountain Meadows Massacre that the historical record does not. In. her forthcoming book, however, Shannon Novak addresses her osteological.
Lee's fort just across the Utah border in. Arizona. The writing, purportedly by Lee, indicated Brigham Young's role in. Examiners agree that the lead comes from a time and place. After investigating the metal and oxidation using isotopic. Thomas Brunty of Arizona State University told the Salt Lake. Tribune on March 7, 2.
They. were commanded by John Doyle Lee, a prominent and wealthy Mormon and a friend of. Brigham Young, who was . Young responded by placing Utah under martial law and. Despite the vows of. Mormon. communities. Many Mormons, shocked by what they heard and saw - - such as fellow.
Mormons wearing the finery of the dead - - packed up and left. The Mountain Meadows. Massacre took place in southern Utah nearly 1. Southern California's history too, leading to the demise of a fledgling Mormon. San Bernardino. Early on a Monday. September 1. 85. 7, about 1. California- bound wagon train were slaughtered under a flag of truce by Mormons.
Their founder, Joseph Smith, was murdered in 1. Illinois, and Mormons retreated into the western wilderness. When the 1. 85. 7 massacre. Mormon Church blamed Paiute Indians. It was not only the. Army troops visiting the site almost two years later reported finding. As evidence emerged.
Mormons, many of them disguised as Indians. Young figured it was far enough from the boundaries of the. United States to proclaim a new Zion, where Mormons could make their own laws. In 1. 85. 1, Young sent 4.
Salt Lake City on an arduous 8. Cajon Pass. Within a year, the Mormons had agreed to. Rancho San Bernardino. Among the pioneers was.
Biddy Mason, a slave who would become one of California's richest women and. First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles.
She. fought her Mormon owner to win her freedom. The pioneers built a.
It served as a major link in the church's. San Pedro's harbor and Salt Lake City, and as a way station. Salt Lake. The town's population soon. In 1. 85. 3, San Bernardino. Los Angeles County, becoming a county in its own right.
The town. was incorporated a year later. By early 1. 85. 7, almost a. Mexican- American War had allowed the United States to expand. Utah, Mormons in Salt Lake were under pressure from the. President Buchanan. Utah in open rebellion and sent troops to replace Young with a. Mormon territorial governor.
Young responded by placing Utah under martial. Against this backdrop. Arkansas for California by. They passed through Cedar City, Utah, and made camp 3. Mountain Meadows. Local Mormons, angry. Seven men were killed in the first volley.
The others quickly moved the. But snipers began picking off settlers one by one. A bullet tore through the earlobe of a 3- year- old. On the third day of the. The men were slaughtered first - - shot, stabbed and. Then the killers fell upon the women and children. Two teenage sisters who.
Lee in exchange for their lives were stripped of their. Seventeen children. All were placed in Mormon homes. Some remembered. their new . Rebecca later recounted that they were taken to a ranch.
Many Mormons, shocked by what they heard and saw - - such as fellow. Mormons wearing the finery of the dead - - packed up and left. By October, word of the. California. The Los Angeles Star newspaper.
Two- thirds of the members obeyed. The rest refused, not. Some would later join a splinter branch of. Young. It would be another 6. Mormons established an official presence in San Bernardino.
In January 1. 85. Arkansas. The victims' families appealed to the. Eventually. 1. 5 of the orphaned children were found and returned to their Arkansas relatives.
His trial. ended in a hung jury, but he was convicted in a second trial and executed in. He was the only participant brought to justice.
The church denied any. A memorial erected two years after the massacre was. Brigham Young himself. Rescue of the Mountain Meadows Orphans.
Wild West Magazine. February 2. 00. 5The forgotten legacy of the massacre in Utah Territory in September. Western tragedy. By Will Bagley. In the fall of 1.
Arkansas camped in. Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, a lush alpine oasis on the.
Spanish Trail where wagon trains rested before crossing the Mojave. Desert. The party was made up of about a dozen large, prosperous. Southern California.
Of its 1. 35 to 1. As the travelers brewed coffee not long after dawn on Monday, September. The survivors quickly pulled their scattered wagons.
The. Arkansans quickly built a wagon fort and dug a pit at its center to. Cut off from water and under continual. Finally, on Friday, September 1. The emigrants let the emissary, a Mormon from the nearby. Cedar City, into their fort, and then the local Indian.
John D. Lee, entered the camp. Lee told them the Indians had.
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