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A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton Index of claims

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Index to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows

This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIR Wiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.

• Introduction—
  Claims made in "Introduction: The Cairn" (xx–xxiii) (Link)
• Chapter 1—
  Claims made in "Chapter 1: Palmyra, 1823" (3–11) (Link)
• Chapter 2—
  Claims made in "Chapter 2: Kirtland/Far west, 1831" (12–21) (Link)
• Chapter 3—
  Claims made in "Chapter 3: Nauvoo, 1840" (22–39) (Link)
• Chapter 4—
  Claims made in "Chapter 4: Winter Quarters—Council Bluffs, 1846" (40–60) (Link)
• Chapter 5—
  Claims made in "Chapter 5: Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849" (61–75) (Link)
• Chapter6—
  Claims made in "Chapter 6: Sevier River, October 26, 1853" (76–92) (Link)
• Chapter 7—
  Claims made in "Chapter 7: Harrison, March 29, 1857" (93-103) (Link)
• Chapter 8—
  Claims made in "Chapter 8: Deseret, August 3, 1857" (104–117) (Link)
• Chapter 9—
  Claims made in "Chapter 9: The Southern Trail, August 3, 1857" (118-127) (Link)
• Chapter 10—
  Claims made in "Chapter 10: Mountain Meadows, September 7-11, 1857" (128–146) (Link)
• Chapter 11—
  Claims made in "Chapter 11: Deseret, September 12, 1857" (147–163) (Link)
• Chapter 12—
  Claims made in "Chapter 12: Camp Scott, November 16, 1857" (164–187) (Link)
• Chapter 13—
  Claims made in "Chapter 13: Cedar City, April 7, 1859" (188–204) (Link)
• Chapter 14—
  Claims made in "Chapter 14: Mountain Meadows, May 25, 1861" (205–217) (Link)
• Chapter 15—
  Claims made in "Chapter 15: Mountain Meadows, March 23, 1877" (218–236) (Link)
• Chapter 16—
  Claims made in "Chapter 16: Mountain Meadows Aftermath" (237–241) (Link)

Further reading

A FAIR Analysis of Critical Works

• American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows— (Index of claims)
• An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
• Ashamed of Joseph: Mormon Foundations Crumble
• Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism/Inside Today's Mormonism — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Behind the Mask of Mormonism
• Specific works/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Specific works/By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
• Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
  • Answering Mormon Scholars, Vol. 1
  • Answering Mormon Scholars, Vol. 2
• Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
• Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
• Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
• Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History
• From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith — (Index of Claims)
• Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
• Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record
• Is the Mormon My Brother?
• Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
• Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd edition)—(Index of claims)
• Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
• The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) — (Index of claims)
• Leaving the Saints
• Letters to a Mormon Elder
• Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
• The Mormon Mirage: Seeing Through the Illusion of Mainstream Mormonism
• Mormonism 101—Index of claims
• Mormonism (Kurt Van Gorden)
• Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)
• The Mysteries of Godliness—A History of Mormon Temple Worship
• Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims—Use of sources—Prejudicial language—Presentism—Mind reading—Censorship—Romance—Assumptions—Magick)
• New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
• New Mormon Challenge
• No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims—Use of Sources—Prejudicial language—Absurd claims—Presentism—Mind reading—Rewording—Omissions—Sarcasm)
• The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844
• Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
• Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
• The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
• Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
• Under the Banner of Heaven — (Index of claims)
• Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture