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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Use of sources/Allies or grain
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Use of sources: Indians raising "allies" to help in the massacre at Mountain Meadows?
Will Bagley claims that Dimmick Huntington's journal discusses Indians raising "allies" to help in the massacre at Mountain Meadows which he claims Brigham is orchestrating.
Source(s) of the criticism
- Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 114.
Hoping to indict Brigham Young in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Bagley — a professional historian — seriously distorts the historical record.
Raising allies?
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Bagley quotes D.B. Huntington, Brigham Young's interpreter, as saying that the Piedes band of Indians were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise [allies]" (brackets by Bagley). |
Huntington's journal entry for 1 September 1857 actually says they were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise grain. |
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