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A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Will Balgey Index of Claims

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Index to claims made in Blood of the Prophets

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.

• Front matter—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Front matter" (xi–xxi) (Link)
• Prologue—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Prologue" (3–5) (Link)
• Chapter 1—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts" (6–22) (Link)
• Chapter 2—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 2: The Battle-Ax of the Lord" (23–37) (Link)
• Chapter 3—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 3: Political Hacks, Robbers, and Whoremongers" (38–54) (Link)
• Chapter 4—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 4: The Arkansas Travelers" (55–72) (Link)
• Chapter 5—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 5: I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell" (73–94) (Link)
• Chapter 6—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 6: We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move" (95–122) (Link)
• Chapter 7—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 7: The Knife and Tomahawk" (123–139) (Link)
• Chapter 8—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 8: The Work of Death" (140–155) (Link)
• Chapter 9—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 9: The Scene of Blood and Carnage" (156–170) (Link)
• Chapter 10—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 10: Plunder" (171–187) (Link)
• Chapter 11—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 11: All Hell Is in Commotion" (188–207) (Link)
• Chapter 12—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 12: I Have Slain My Children" (208–224) (Link)
• Chapter 13—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 13: Vengeance Is Mine" (225–247) (Link)
• Chapter 14—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 14: A Hideous Lethargic Dream" (248–267) (Link)
• Chapter 15—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 15: Lonely Dell" (268–286) (Link)
• Chapter 16—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 16: As False as the Hinges of Hell: The Trials of John D. Lee" (287–306) (Link)
• Chapter 17—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 17: He Died Game: The Execution of John D. Lee" (307–322) (Link)
• Chapter 18—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 18: The Mountain Meadow Dogs" (323–347) (Link)
• Chapter 19—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Chapter 19: Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough" (348–364) (Link)
• Epilogue—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley (365–384) (Link)
• Appendix—
  Responses to critical claims made in "Appendix" (385–475) (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