Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows - Paperback
by Will Bagley
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806136394ISBN-10:806136391UPC:9780806136394Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:United States, ChristianityBook Topic:19th Century, State & Local, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:10.00 x 6.96 x 1.22 inchesWeight:2.1Product ID:SCC8HXK31E
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806136394ISBN-10:806136391UPC:9780806136394Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:United States, ChristianityBook Topic:19th Century, State & Local, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:10.00 x 6.96 x 1.22 inchesWeight:2.1Product ID:SCC8HXK31E
Bagley, Will: - Will Bagley (1950-2021) was an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series, KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley has been a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the 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 four volumes of Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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