The Mountain Meadows Massacre

Product #: MMMBROOKS167
Author(s): Juanita Brooks
Contents: 318 pages

Juanita Brooks, a Mormon in good standing, felt that her church would benefit if the detailed facts of the tragedy were revealed in their true light. A scholarly researcher, she discusses the facts as she found them, neither smearing nor clearing the participants as individuals. - American Book Collector

This book remains the definitive study of that dark day in the history of Utah when an emigrant wagon train crossing southern Utah was attacked by Indians and Mormons. Twenty years after the massacre John D. Lee, a Mormon and participant in the massacre, was executed by a firing squad and thus entered history as the scapegoat for a large group of men who had all been a party to the tragic event. - Library Journal