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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
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Product Description The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others. Review “An exhaustive, meticulously documented, highly readable history that captures the events and atmosphere that gave rise to the massacre, as well as its long, tortuous aftermath.”—The New York Review of Books "While the word ‘definitive’ is often overused, this account of the killings merits that distinction. Bagley’s book ranks as a Mormon historical classic."—Brigham D. Madsen, Western Historical Quarterly “A reflective and well-researched history of Mormonism’s darkest hour.”—Publishers Weekly “A new standard work on the massacre.”—Library Journal“A major contribution to western American history.”—Robert M. Utley About the Author Will Bagley (1950–2021) was an independent historian who wrote about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley was the general editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley was a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and a Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 is the first of the two-volume Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails series. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Blood of the ProphetsBrigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain MeadowsBy Will BagleyUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESSCopyright © 2002 University of Oklahoma PressAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-8061-3639-4ContentsList of Illustrations, List of Maps, Preface, Acknowledgments, Prologue: The Mountain Meadow, 1. Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts, 2. The Battle-Ax of the Lord, 3. Political Hacks, Robbers, and Whoremongers, 4. The Arkansas Travelers, 5. I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell, 6. We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move, 7. The Knife and Tomahawk, 8. The Work of Death, 9. The Scene of Blood and Carnage, 10. Plunder, 11. All Hell Is in Commotion, 12. They Have Slain My Children, 13. Vengeance Is Mine, 14. A Hideous Lethargic Dream, 15. Lonely Dell, 16. As False as the Hinges of Hell: The Trials of John D. Lee, 17. He Died Game: The Execution of John D. Lee, 18. The Mountain Meadow Dogs, 19. Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough, Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows, Appendix: Victims of the Massacre, Notes, Bibliography, Index, CHAPTER 1Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of HostsEleanor Jane McComb was born in western Virginia in 1817. As a child, she followed her family down the great rivers of the American heartland to the Deep South. Her trials began when
