Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806136391 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ty Daggett said A must read. A Classic. The research that must have gone into this treasure gives one pause. Thoroughly enjoyed it!. updates brooks M. baker i found a reference to this in re-reading Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. Juanita Brooks' Mountain Meadows Massacre had been, for me, the bible about these doings. Bagley has gained access to additional information (eg, letters, meeting notes, etc) and fleshes out the context of the ongoing disputes (from the midwest to the west) in a thorough way, giving me a better understanding of both perspectives. It is a more "academic" book than Brooks'; I wouldn't dispense with either.Just FYI, my interest in this is based on the decade-plus later mur. Merlin Douglas Larsen said A good source for the detailed story. I was told to go and read Bagley, so that I would know what in heck I am talking about when discussing the MMM. Well, taking no offense, that is what I did: even bought it from Amazon too. Took me less than three weeks, in between other activities and reading, to plow through Blood of the Prophets.After I was done, I knew a lot of things that I had not heard before; little details that are intriguing, such as discovering just how well known John D. Lee was as a legendary character even in his own lifetime. And that his trial was a media event not eq
This well-written and well-thought-out analysis is essential for all libraries with collections on the West or the Mormons.Stephen H. But by using documents not available to Brooks and by following her example in pursuing the truth wherever it led him while not going beyond the available evidence, he confirms her private opinion that territorial Mormon leader and governor Brigham Young was heavily involved in both the massacre and its cover-up. Here, independent historian and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Bagley claims only to extend Brooks's work. In the process, Bagley has produced the new standard work on the massacre. Lib., Marq
Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of four volumes of Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series. . Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Will Bagley is an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. B
Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.. 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 Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians