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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-     Subjects     Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939-       by title:      Massacre at Mountain...         MARC Display

Massacre at Mountain Meadows / Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard. by Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren), 1939- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. Subjects Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857. ISBN:  9780195160345 0195160347 Description:  xvi, 430 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm. Contents:  Prologue: a picture of human suffering Mountain Meadows, May 1859 -- Exiles from freedom New York to the Iowa Plains, 1830-1846 -- Peals of thunder Utah, 1847-1857 -- No more submit to oppression Silver Lake, July 24, 1857 -- Avoid all excitement, but be ready Salt Lake city to Parowan, July 24-August 8, 1857 -- Preaching a military discourse Southern Utah, August 9-21, 1857 -- A splendid train Arkansas to Utah, emigration season, 1857 -- Restless and excited begins Northern Utah, July-August 1857 -- We have better claim Salt Lake to Filmore, August 1857 -- Men have magnified a natural circumstance Corn Creek to Parowan, late August-early September 1857 -- Make it an Indian massacre: Cedar city, July 24-September 5 1857 -- A fearful responsibility Cedar City and Southwest, September 5-7, 1857 -- Finish his dirty job Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7-10,1857 -- Decoyed out and destroyed Mountain Meadows, September 10-11, 1875 -- Too late to back water Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, September 11-13, 1857 -- Epilogue: under sentence of death Beaver to Mountain Meadows, March 20-23 1877 -- Appendixes: A. The emigrants -- B. The emigrants' property -- C. The militiamen -- D. The Indians. Requests:  0 Summary:  Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormon settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library LLH Closed Stacks 979.202 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 979.202 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 979.202 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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