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Massacre at Mountain Meadows : an American tragedy / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-2016, author.
- Turley, Richard E., Jr., 1956- author.
- Leonard, Glen M., 1938- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857.
- Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Pioneers--Arkansas--History--19th century.
- Pioneers.
- Pioneers--Utah--History--19th century.
- Immigrants--Arkansas--History--19th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Utah--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- Utah--Social conditions--19th century.
- Utah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (447 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. This book offers a thoroughly researched account of the massacre.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Picture of Human Suffering: Mountain Meadows, May 1859; ONE: Exiles from Freedom: New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830–1846; TWO: Peals of Thunder: Utah, 1847–1857; THREE: No More Submit to Oppression: Silver Lake, July 24, 1857; FOUR: Avoid All Excitement, But Be Ready: Salt Lake City to Parowan, July 24–August 8, 1857; FIVE: Preaching a Military Discourse: Southern Utah, August 9–21, 1857; SIX: A Splendid Train: Arkansas to Utah, Emigration Season, 1857; SEVEN: Restless and Excited Beings: Northern Utah, July–August 1857
- EIGHT: We Have Better Claim: Salt Lake to Fillmore, August 1857NINE: Men Have Magnified a Natural Circumstance: Corn Creek to Parowan, Late August–Early September 1857; TEN: Make It an Indian Massacre: Cedar City, July 24–September 5, 1857; ELEVEN: A Fearful Responsibility: Cedar City and Southwest, September 5–7, 1857; TWELVE: Finish His Dirty Job: Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7–10, 1857; THIRTEEN: Decoyed Out and Destroyed: Mountain Meado
- Notes:
- Maps printed on endpapers.
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774005-7
- 1-281-51504-3
- 9786611515041
- 0-19-972199-8
- OCLC:
- 367906292
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