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Vengeance is mine, the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown

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Vengeance is mine

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Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown

the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath

"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of the atrocity. In greater detail than ever before, Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies about the victims and perpetrators of the crime. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials, the second ending in Lee's conviction. The book examines the fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham Young, including what Young knew of the crime and when he knew it. The book also tells the story of the seventeen young children who survived the massacre and their later return to Arkansas, from where the ill-fated wagon train originated. The book traces the fate of the perpetrators to the end of their lives, including the harrowing demise of Nephi Johnson, who screamed, "Blood! Blood! Blood!" in the delirium of his death bed more than sixty years after the massacre"--, Provided by publisher

The angel of peace should extend his wings -- Sermons like pitch forks -- Imposed upon no more -- Too late -- Forget everything -- The sound of war -- An awful tale of blood -- Indians hostile to all strangers -- The spirit of the times -- A lion in the path -- Make the Mormons pay -- Fearful calamities -- Peacefully submitting -- The moment is critical -- Make all inquiry -- Join the know nothings -- A line of policy -- An inquisition -- Bring to light the perpetrators -- Nothing but evasive replies -- Make diligent inquiry -- Approach of the troops -- Catching is before hanging -- Precious legacies from the departed ones -- Unwilling to rest under the stigma -- The course adopted will not prove successful -- Vengeance is mine -- In the midst of a desolating war -- Too horrible to contemplate -- Cut off -- Boiling conditions -- Zeal o'erleaped itself -- The time has come -- Do you plead guilty -- Open the ball -- Make a clean breast of it -- A lively skirmish -- The curtain has fallen -- Coerce me to make a statement -- Mr. Howard gives promise -- The responsibility before you -- Sufficient to warrant a verdict -- The demands of justice -- Allow the law to take its course -- Under sentence of death -- Failure to arrest these men -- Haunted

Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath