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Vengeance is mine : the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath
Title
Vengeance is mine : the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath / Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown.
ISBN
9780195397857
0195397851
9780197675694
9780197675731
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Physical Description
xvi, 501 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on endpapers.
Summary
"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of the atrocity. In greater detail than ever before, Vengeance Is Mine documents southern Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies about the victims and perpetrators of the crime. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. The book examines the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials, the second ending in Lee's conviction. The book examines the fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham Young, including what Young knew of the crime and when he knew it. The book also tells the story of the seventeen young children who survived the massacre and their later return to Arkansas, from where the ill-fated wagon train originated. The book traces the fate of the perpetrators to the end of their lives, including the harrowing demise of Nephi Johnson, who screamed, "Blood! Blood! Blood!" in the delirium of his death bed more than sixty years after the massacre"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath.
Other formats
Online version: Turley, Richard E., Jr., 1956- Vengeance is mine New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The angel of peace should extend his wings
Sermons like pitch forks
Imposed upon no more
Too late
Forget everything
The sound of war
An awful tale of blood
Indians hostile to all strangers
The spirit of the times
A lion in the path
Make the Mormons pay
Fearful calamities
Peacefully submitting
The moment is critical
Make all inquiry
Join the know nothings
A line of policy
An inquisition
Bring to light the perpetrators
Nothing but evasive replies
Make diligent inquiry
Approach of the troops
Catching is before hanging
Precious legacies from the departed ones
Unwilling to rest under the stigma
The course adopted will not prove successful
Vengeance is mine
In the midst of a desolating war
Too horrible to contemplate
Cut off
Boiling conditions
Zeal o'erleaped itself
The time has come
Do you plead guilty
Open the ball
Make a clean breast of it
A lively skirmish
The curtain has fallen
Coerce me to make a statement
Mr. Howard gives promise
The responsibility before you
Sufficient to warrant a verdict
The demands of justice
Allow the law to take its course
Under sentence of death
Failure to arrest these men
Haunted.
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History.
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