Innocent blood : essential narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre / edited by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bigler, David L., 1927-2018.

Bagley, Will, 1950-2021.

Series:

Kingdom in the West ; v. 12.

Kingdom in the West ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857--Sources.

Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857.

Latter Day Saint pioneers--Utah--History--Sources.

Latter Day Saint pioneers.

Latter Day Saint pioneers--Utah--Biography.

History.

Utah.

Genre:

Biographies.

Sources.

Physical Description:

508 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman, Okla. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2008.

Contents:

"I am a poor wayfaring stranger" : the Arkansas families

"Travelin' through this world below" : the Mormon reformation

"Dark clouds are going to gather 'round me" : the murder of Parley Parker Pratt

"My way'll be rough and steep" : the emigrants go south

"I'm only going over Jordan" : first reports of the emigrant massacre

"Only goin' over home" : not one left to tell the story

"The Santa Clara Expedition" : the Army cracks the case

"Survivors of Sebastopol" : the children

"A dose of rope" : fire from within and more obstruction

"The bar of justice" : the trials of John D. Lee

"The old man never flinched" : Lee's execution

"Not an accessory before or after the fact"

"The sheerest nonsense" : damning the dead and inventing the Missouri wildcats

"These painted blood-thirsty Indians" : participant accounts

"You don't forget the horror": the survivors remember

"The shadow of treachery and death" :the legacy of mountain meadows.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-492) and index.

ISBN:

9780870623622

0870623621

9780870623646

0870623648

9780870622748

0870622749

OCLC:

226966535