Massacre at Mountain Meadows

If the reader wants a historically, documented account of what really happened at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857 - don't rely on the Mormons to tell the story.I know of no other books for sale on Amazon that garner so many 5 and 4 ratings. It's astonishing until you know that the church has "encouraged" their members to write these well scripted reviews. The LDS Church is so very organized in their propaganda. The most important note to make here is to identify all the authors are members/employees of the LDS church. With this book , they have attempted to resurrect the lies about the emigrants poisoning the Indians & bragging to have the gun that killed Joseph Smith and all their other ugly behavior that got them massacred such as cursing. etc.All the members of the wagon train were Methodists, traveling with a Methodist minister - called "Mericats, Gentiles, Non-believers" by the Mormons. Both Baker and Fancher had made several trips through the territory before and were known to some of their murderers. Turley now has a new spin on the "poison" lies - he says the cattle died from a common disease that was known to "kill" anyone who ate the meat and the emigrants were blamed as a mistake (whoopsie, 120 slaughtered? my bad) Yet, he provides no references for most of his fictional facts nor can he identify what that "common" disease was. In fact, given the years of historical research done by real historians and anthropologists - Turley has miraculously come across a new fact, never before revealed "Cow disease got the emigrants slaughtered!" and this self-proclaimed historian cannot provide his reference? These statements have all been proved to have been initiated immediately following the massacre. Then, 1st counselor in the LDS church's 1st presidency, Hinkley exonerated the Paiute Indians during a speech in Cedar City 1990, at a memorial. I attended that memorial. Strangely, no one was allowed to carry video or voice recorders into the coliseum. All the descendants were searched and patted down and told to empty their pockets and purses. They were all told that "the church" would make a recording - available for free. When we received them, Hinkley's apologies and his statements that the Paiute nation was NOT GUILTY, the presentation and prayers given by the Spiritual Leader Clifford Jake and Tribal Chairwomen Geneal Anderson were edited out. Today, that gives these authors the freedom to resurrect the blame on the Indians. Also, Turley et.al, have renewed the fictional "Utah War" as the reason for the massacre - even though, not one bullet was ever fired, and the only person who knew about a war was Brigham Young, a ruse to get his bishops to do his bidding and plant fear in the hearts of the members - for a more authentic history see Bagley, Denton, Wood and/or Shannon Novak's books. . The wagon train was attacked for the money, cattle, wagons, horses, oxen and gold - it was worth over $100,000 dollars in 1857 - more than 32 million today. Mormons robbed and murdered other trains and travelers as well - this was just the wealthiest, largest and the only one that resulted in depositions reported to the U.S.Congress (all found in the National Archives in DC). The Mormons have placated the descendants since 1990 - now, they are trying once again to rewrite history - they've returned to the cover-up that was written by Brigham Young in 1857 and are trying it one more time. Admittedly, the book could be in retaliation for the damage done by the movie, "September Dawn," - the love story was fiction, but the historical facts of the massacre all have footnotes and references; in other words - it's valid, documented research from unbiased, historical sources.

My girls great great uncle witnessed the murders take place.. he along with several other paiute were picking pine nuts up on the mountain where the massacre took place. The monument isn't even in the right spot. They watched as the white men went to the stream and washed the mud off their faces... they knew that they were going to be blamed so they headed to caliente Nevada and settled there.. the Mormons only suffered because they chose to. Renegade Indians were also involved.