Description

"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 Bagely's Blood of the Prophets is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of some 120 men, women, and children since Junita Brooks published her groundbreaking study, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in 1950. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre." (From back cover.)

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Mountain Meadow

1. Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts
2. The Battle-Ax of the Lord
3. Political Hacks, Robbers, and Whoremongers
4. The Arkansas Travelers
5. I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell
6. We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move
7. The Knife and Tomahawk
8. The Work of Death
9. The Scene of Blood and Carnage
10. Plunder
11. All Hell Is in Commotion
12. They Have Slain My Children
13. Vengeance Is Mine
14. A Hideous Lethargic Dream
15. Lonely Dell
16. As False as the Hinges of Hell: The Trials of John D. Lee
17. He Died Game: The Execution of John D. Lee
18. The Mountain Meadow Dogs
19. Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough

Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
Appendix: Victims of the Massacre