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Autore |
Walker Ronald W (Ronald Warren), <1939-> |
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows [[electronic resource] ] : an American tragedy / / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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0-19-774005-7 |
1-281-51504-3 |
9786611515041 |
0-19-972199-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (447 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LeonardGlen M |
TurleyRichard E., Jr., <1956-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857 |
Massacres - Utah |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-408) and index. |
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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 |
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On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of |
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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 |
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