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The Mountain Meadows Massacre

by Juanita Brooks

Conflict, silence, and the events at Mountain Meadows

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Conflict, silence, and the events at Mountain Meadows

Juanita Brooks examines the 1857 killing of California-bound emigrants at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, placing the event within the conflicts and fears of the period. The account traces how silence was urged after the killings and how early reporting attributed the attack largely to Native Americans. It also considers Utah’s social and military organization and the climate shaped by memories of persecution and fears of an approaching army. The book’s historical framing centers on the forces surrounding the massacre without reducing the participants to a single judgment.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in nineteenth-century U.S. history and the history of Utah.
  • Readers seeking historical accounts that examine the context and aftermath of a specific event.
  • Readers interested in how public accounts and calls for silence shaped the record of a historical tragedy.

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Nineteenth-century U.S. historyConflict and fear in territorial UtahSilence and historical reportingCollective and individual responsibility

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Book overview

In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named.

With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching "army" coming to drive the Mormons from their homes.

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