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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964686503321

Autore

Walker Ronald W (Ronald Warren), <1939-2016.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-19-774005-7

1-281-51504-3

9786611515041

0-19-972199-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

LeonardGlen M

TurleyRichard E., Jr.,  <1956->

Disciplina

979.2/02

Soggetti

Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857

Massacres - Utah

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. This book offers a thoroughly researched account of the massacre.