PREFACE; APPENDIX A: THE EMIGRANTS; APPENDIX B: THE EMIGRANTS PROPERTY; APPENDIX C: THE IRON MILITARY DISTRICT; APPENDIX D: INDIANS ALLEGEDLY TIED TO THE MASSACRE
Ronald W. Walker is an independent historian and writer of
Latter-day Saint history living in Salt Lake City.
Richard E. Turley, Jr. is Assistant Church Historian for The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Glen M. Leonard is former Director of the LDS Museum of Church
History and Art.
"A vivid, gripping narrative of one of the most notorious mass
murders in all American history, and a model for how historians
should do their work. This account of a long-controversial horror
is scrupulously researched, enriched with contemporary
illustrations, and informed by the lessons of more recent
atrocities." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
"Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most
shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very
detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to
the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857." --Robert V. Remini,
Professor Emeritus of History and the Humanities, University of
Illinois, Chicago
"An institutional effort at truth telling in service to reparation,
this book provides in unflinching detail and with scholarly
transparency the story of one of the West's most disturbingly
violent moments. The authors tell the story well and get the
history right, in no small part because of LDS Church sponsorship
that underwrote a level of professional staffing and research that
is impossible, even unimaginable, to the most diligent of lone
writers. This
uniquely well-documented account of a highly contested event may
make obsolete previous studies and without doubt will constitute
the necessary starting point for all future ones." --Kathleen
Flake, author
of The Politics of American Religious Identity
"The authors of Massacre at Mountain Meadows have written the best
researched, most complete, and most evenhanded account of the
Mountain Meadows incident we are likely to have for a long time.
Above all they tell a gripping tale. Though I knew the end from the
beginning, I began to sweat as the narrative approached its fatal
climax. The authors won't let us turn our gaze away from the
horrors of that moment." --Richard Bushman, Howard W. Hunter
Chair
of Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University
"Massacre at Mountain Meadows is arguably the most professional,
transparent account of a controversial event in Mormon history
produced under church auspices. The work may well mark a major
turning point in Latter-day Saint historiography." --Journal of
American History
"Massacre at Mountain Meadows deserves to be the standard account
of the massacre for both LDS and non-LDS researchers and
readers...Walker, Turley, and Leonard have provided a tightly
written, riveting narrative ...In this excellent volume readers of
every stripe--from undergraduates to scholars to the general
public--will find not only the finest extant account of the tragedy
of Mountain Meadows but also a window onto the potential, but by no
means
inevitable, power of religion to contribute to mass violence."
--Church History
"It may be tempting to disregard this work as just another in a
long line of books written about this tragic event, but it would be
a mistake to discount it. The authors have compiled a staggering
amount of research, some of which has never been seen before, and
present a more thorough and detailed history of Mountain Meadows
than has ever been written. . . This meticulously researched book
is an important contribution to the study of Mormonism in America
and
the authors succeeded in telling the story of an often polarizing
event in a scholarly and historically responsible way."--Religious
Studies Review
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