Volume 49, Number 18 · November 21, 2002
The Mormon Murder Case
By Caroline Fraser
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Will Bagley
University of Oklahoma Press, 493 pp., $39.95
Red Water
by Judith Freeman
Pantheon, 324 pp., $24.00
On September 11, 1857, one hundred and twenty men, women, and chil-dren—members of a wagon train party traveling west from Arkansas—were slaughtered in a valley in southwestern Utah, an event now known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Until the 1985 Oklahoma City bombing and the events of September 11, 2001, the Mountain Meadows Massacre stood as one of the worst mass murders of civilians in US history.
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