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"In September 1857, a branch of territorial militia in southern Utah composed entirely of Latter-day Saints, along with some American Indians they recruited, laid siege to a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California. The militiamen carried out a deliberate massacre, killing 120 men, women, and children in a valley known as Mountain Meadows. Only 17 small children—those believed to be too young to be able to tell what had happened there—were spared. This event is perhaps the most tragic episode in the history of the Church."[1]

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  • Richard E. Turley Jr., "The Mountain Meadows Massacre," Ensign (September 2007): 14.off-site
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  • Gene Sessions, "Shining New Light on the Mountain Meadows Massacre," Proceedings of the 2003 FAIR Conference (August 2003). link
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  • Henry B. Eyring, "Remarks at 150th Anniversary of Mountain Meadows Massacre," (11 September 2007), Washington County, Utah. off-site
  • Justin Butterfield, "Let the Book of the Past Be Reopened: The Latest on the Mountain Meadows Massacre]" (review of Ron Walker's May 2006 Mormon History Association presentation), Mormon Wasp blog, 1 July 2006 (accessed 3 July 2006).off-site
  • Lawrence Coates, "Review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows," Brigham Young University Studies 31 no. 1 (January 2003), 153–. off-site
  • Lawrence Coates, "review of Anna Jean Backus Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith," Brigham Young University Studies 36 no. 4 (1996–97), 225–. off-site
  • Paul H. Peterson, "Review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows," Brigham Young University Studies 31 no. 1 (January 2003), 159–. off-site
  • Thomas G. Alexander, "Review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows," Brigham Young University Studies 31 no. 1 (January 2003), 167–. off-site
  • Ronald W. Walker, "'Save the Emigrants': Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre," Brigham Young University Studies 42 no. 1 (2003), 139–152. PDF link
  • Robert H. Briggs, "'Sally Denton’s American Massacre: Authentic Mormon Past versus the Danite Interpretation of History (Review of American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857)'," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004). [111–134] link
  • Robert D. Crockett, "A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003). [199–254] link
  • Robert D. Crockett, "'The Denton Debacle (Review of American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857)'," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004). [135–148] link
  • Eric A. Eliason, "'Review of Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896'," FARMS Review 12/1 (2000). [95–112] link
  • Daniel C. Peterson, "Of 'Galileo Events,' Hype, and Suppression: Or, Abusing Science and Its History—Editor's Introduction," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003). [ix–lxii] link
  • Ronald K. Esplin and Richard E. Turley, Jr., "Mountain Meadows Massacre," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 2:966–968.off-site
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  • W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall, "review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley," Mormon Historical Studies (Spring 2003): 149–157.
  • Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Norman University of Oklahoma Press, 1962).
  • Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1950).
  • W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall, review of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Will Bagley, Mormon Historical Studies 4/1 (2003): 149—57.
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Notes

  1. "Mountain Meadows Massacre," Church History Topics, Gospel Library.

Slavery in early Utah

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