Description

Good, short account of the tragic murder of approximately 120 non-Mormons by early Mormons in 1857.

Table of Contents (Hyperlinked to Online Version)

Contents

Part One

• NOTE TO SECOND AND FUTURE EDITIONS
• INTRODUCTION.
• AGENCIES OF WHICH THE MASSACRE WAS THE LOGICAL RESULT.
• DOCTRINE OF "BLOOD ATONEMENT" AND ITS RESULTS.

Part Two

• THE DOOMED ARKANSAS COMPANY.
• CONDITIONS IN SOUTHERN UTAH.
• PERSONNEL OF THE LEADING ASSASSINS.
• ROUTE OF THE EMIGRANTS.
• THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS.
• THE CONSPIRACY.

Part Three

• THE ATTACK.
• EMIGRANT'S HEROIC DEFENSE.
• ASSEMBLING OF WHITE ASSASSINS.
• THE MASSACRE.

Part Four

• FUTHER DETAILS — FROM MAJOR CARLETON'S REPORT.
• TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF JOHN D. LEE.

Part Five

• APPENDIX.
  • TESTIMONY OF LABAN MORRILL — SECOND TRIAL OF LEE.
  • TESTIMONY OF JACOB HAMBLIN — SECOND TRIAL OF LEE.
  • TESTIMONY OF NEPHI JOHNSON — SECOND TRIAL OF LEE.
  • IN DEFENSE OF THE EMIGRANTS.
  • ELDER PENROSE'S "DEFENSE" OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE CHURCH.