1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453611703321

Autore

Walker Ronald W (Ronald Warren), <1939->

Titolo

Massacre at Mountain Meadows [[electronic resource] ] : an American tragedy / / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-51504-3

9786611515041

0-19-972199-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LeonardGlen M

TurleyRichard E., Jr.,  <1956->

Disciplina

979.2/02

Soggetti

Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857

Massacres - Utah

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Map on lining papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Picture of Human Suffering: Mountain Meadows, May 1859; ONE: Exiles from Freedom: New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830–1846; TWO: Peals of Thunder: Utah, 1847–1857; THREE: No More Submit to Oppression: Silver Lake, July 24, 1857; FOUR: Avoid All Excitement, But Be Ready: Salt Lake City to Parowan, July 24–August 8, 1857; FIVE: Preaching a Military Discourse: Southern Utah, August 9–21, 1857; SIX: A Splendid Train: Arkansas to Utah, Emigration Season, 1857; SEVEN: Restless and Excited Beings: Northern Utah, July–August 1857

EIGHT: We Have Better Claim: Salt Lake to Fillmore, August 1857NINE: Men Have Magnified a Natural Circumstance: Corn Creek to Parowan, Late August–Early September 1857; TEN: Make It an Indian Massacre: Cedar City, July 24–September 5, 1857; ELEVEN: A Fearful Responsibility: Cedar City and Southwest, September 5–7, 1857; TWELVE: Finish His Dirty Job: Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7–10, 1857; THIRTEEN: Decoyed Out and Destroyed: Mountain Meado

Sommario/riassunto

On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of



truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910138886503321

Autore

Atkinson Peter <1952->

Titolo

Making game : an essay on hunting, familiar things, and the strangeness of being who one is / / Peter L. Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, : AU Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-81962-3

9786612819629

1-897425-29-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cultural dialectics, , 1915-836X

Disciplina

179.3

799.292

Soggetti

Hunting - Philosophy

Hunting - Moral and ethical aspects

Hunters - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Zero -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Eight -- Nine

Sommario/riassunto

Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. This engaging essay is informed by the author’s significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy.