Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

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Author: Will Bagley


Quote mining, selective quotation and distortion

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Bagley quotes D.B. Huntington, Brigham Young's interpreter, as saying that the Piedes band of Indians were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise [allies]" (brackets by Bagley).

Huntington's journal entry for 1 September 1857 actually says they were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise grain.

  • Blood of the Prophets (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 114.
  • Lawrence Coates, review of Blood of the Prophets, BYU Studies 42/1 (2003): 156. PDF link
  • Robert D. Crockett, "A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 199–254. off-site PDF link

Commentary

  • Driven by his passion to indict Brigham Young in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Bagley — a professional historian — seriously distorts the historical record, changing the clear reading in Huntington's handwritten journal in an attempt to manufacture evidence.


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