Category: Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Review: Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy
Dr. Ronald Huggins reviews the book, “Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy,” noting that its defense of Brigham Young ultimately deflates what could have been the more candid approach that was anticipated.
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Will You Love that Man or Woman Well Enough to Shed Their Blood?
Brigham Young’s Culture of Violence and the Murders at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley A paper presented at International Conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions in Salt Lake City and Provo (Utah), June 20-23, 2002, Salt Lake City & Provo. Preliminary version. Used with permission. In 1845, the Mormon apostles issued a…
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Mountain Meadows Massacre — 150 Years Later
By Sandra Tanner “Halt! Do your duty!” With that command scores of zealous LDS priesthood leaders and followers, along with a few Indians, from the Cedar City, Utah, area fired on at least 140 unarmed, non-Mormon men, women and children. The killings were over in a matter of minutes, sparing only 17 or 18 children…
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One of My Family’s Best Kept Secrets (Mountain Meadows Massacre)
As a child I grew up thinking that it was the greatest blessing to be a great-great-granddaughter of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young. However, my LDS family was careful to only mention the most favorable aspects of Young’s life and early Mormonism.
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September 11th Massacre
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner September 11, 2001, will forever be an important date to Americans. On that day over 3,000 people on the east coast were killed by foreign terrorists. However, there is another reason this date will never be forgotten. On September 11, 1857, in southern Utah, approximately 120 unarmed non-Mormon men, women…
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The Thinking Has Been Done: The Mountain Meadows to Guyana
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Since the recent massacre in Guyana there has been a great deal of discussion concerning what constitutes a cult and the process of brainwashing used by such a group. The Salt Lake Tribune for November 26, 1978 reported: The brainwashing, said the experts, was just as subtle as the charismatic…