Description
On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the US. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury after all issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the sufferers.
The editors of this two-volume selection of documents have combed private and non-private manuscript collections from across the US to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre to the dismissal of the last indictment in 1896. Volume 1 accommodates the first half of the story: the records of the official investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments. Eight of those indictments never resulted in a trial conviction, but the one who did is documented extensively in Volume 2.
Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the crucial disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to at the present time. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces in the back of this dark moment in western U.S. history.
The editors of this two-volume selection of documents have combed private and non-private manuscript collections from across the US to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre to the dismissal of the last indictment in 1896. Volume 1 accommodates the first half of the story: the records of the official investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments. Eight of those indictments never resulted in a trial conviction, but the one who did is documented extensively in Volume 2.
Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the crucial disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to at the present time. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces in the back of this dark moment in western U.S. history.
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