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| − | |author=Will Balgey
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| − | =Index to claims made in ''Blood of the Prophets''=
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| − | ==Claims made in SECTION TITLE==
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| − | ====xiv====
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| − | * {{AuthorQuote|...Like the faithful who sat through his fire-and-brimstone sermons, I believe Brigham Young meant exactly what he said [about blood atonement]....}}
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| − | * {{MindReading}}
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| − | * [[Blood atonement]]
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| − | ====9====
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| − | * {{AuthorQuote|...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God}}....
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| − | * [[../Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young|Omissions: "total submission"?]]
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| − | * Compare {{CriticalWork:Krakauer:Under the Banner of Heaven|pages=45}}
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| − | * Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the ''Expositor''.
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| − | * [[Nauvoo Expositor]]
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| − | * Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
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| − | * [[Nauvoo Expositor]]
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| − | * [[Joseph Smith and polygamy]]
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| − | * [[One_Nation_Under_Gods/Use_of_sources/Counterfeiting_apostles_and_Joseph|Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?]]
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| − | * [[Council of Fifty|Theocracy: Council of Fifty?]]
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| − | * [[Nauvoo_city_charter|Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?]]
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| − | * [[Nauvoo_city_charter/Usurpation_of_power|Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?]]
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| − | * {{AuthorQuote|[Temple requires members] to avenge the blood of the Prophet, whenever the opportunity offered, and to teach their children to do the same....}}
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| − | * [[Oath_of_vengeance|Oath of vengeance in temple endowment?]]
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| − | ====50-52====
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| − | * Blood atonement is presented as an active teaching, as prelude to the Massacre.
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| − | * [[Blood atonement]]
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| − | * Blood atonement to be implemented for those guilty of "the unpardonable sin."
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| − | * [[../Use of sources/Unpardonable sin|Use of sources: unpardonable sin]]
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| − | * [[Blood atonement]]
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| − | ====58====
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| − | * Treatment of violent past of Alexander Fancher.
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| − | * {{DoubleStandard}}: [[../Use of sources/Double standard: violence in immigrants|Double standard: violence in immigrants]]
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| − | * Treatment of violent past of John "Jack" Baker.
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| − | * {{DoubleStandard}}: [[../Use of sources/Double standard: violence in immigrants|Double standard: violence in immigrants]]
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| − | * Author credits the report of Judge William W. Drummond on Mormon "murders."
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| − | * {{FalseStatement}}: [[../Use of sources/William W. Drummond and murders|William W. Drummond and murders]]
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| − | * {{AuthorQuote|...[A]ll information about the emigrants' conduct came from men involved in their murder or cover-up....}}
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| − | * Junaita Brooks pointed out that accounts of provocation from the immigrants appeared within days as far away California, and from [[Blood_of_the_Prophets:_Brigham_Young_and_the_Massacre_at_Mountain_Meadows/Use_of_sources/Double_standards_of_skepticism|multiple sources]].
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| − | * {{DoubleStandard}}: [[Blood_of_the_Prophets:_Brigham_Young_and_the_Massacre_at_Mountain_Meadows/Use_of_sources/Double_standards_of_skepticism|Double standard of skepticism]]
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| − | *The author claims that Mountain Meadows was known among the Mormons as "a preferred location for the quiet execution of unpleasant tasks."
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| − | ====137====
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| − | * The author dismisses the letter which Brigham Young wrote sparing the immigrants by writing, "Whatever the letter's intent, it carried a hidden but clear message for Isaac Haight: make sure the Mormons could blame whatever happened on the Paiutes."
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| − | * {{MindReading}}
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| − | * {{SourceDistortion}}: [[Brigham_Young_ordered_MMM|Brigham Young ordered massacre?]]
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| − | * [[Brigham_Young_ordered_MMM/Brigham's_letter_mysteriously_lost|Brigham Young letter]]
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| − | ====117 and others====
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| − | * The author frequently refers to dubious, anonymous, or folklore evidence without much skepticism.
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Double standards of skepticism|Use of sources: double standards of skepticism]]
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| − | * Account of William Hawley
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| − | ====143====
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| − | * Account of William Hawley
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/William Hawley account|Use of sources: William Hawley account]]
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| − | * It is claimed that Jacob Hamblin's adoptive son Albert raped two women at the Massacre, which tales "cannot be discounted entirely."
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Rape by Albert Hamblin|Use of sources: Rape by Albert Hamblin?]]
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| − | ====170====
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| − | * Brigham meets with two Indian chiefs (Tutsegabit and Youngwuds) on 1 September, who then participated in the massacre.
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| − | * {{HistoricalError}}: these chiefs were not at Mountain Meadows.
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| − | * [[../Omissions/Tutsegabit and Youngwuds at Mountain Meadows|Omissions: Tutsegabit and Youngwuds at Mountain Meadows?]]
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| − | * Brigham supposedly "rewarded" Indian chief Tutsegabit for his role in the massacre by ordaining him to the priesthood.
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| − | * {{Prejudicial}}: Dimmick Huntington said that Tutsegabit was ordained to "preach the gospel & baptize among the house of lsreal [sic]."{{ref|priesthood.ordain}}
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| − | * Brigham gave a gift of salt to the U.S. army, which it was implied was poisoned.
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Gift of salt|Use of sources: Gift of salt?]]
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| − | * Col. Thomas Kane a "hypochondriac."
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| − | ====220====
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| − | * Bagley claims to have found another source by John D. Lee, upon which he relies.
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| − | *"''Anonymous sources are usually worthless.''...''Blood of the Prophets''...spends several pages with the "Discursive Remarks,"...[and] attributes the work to John D. Lee, as if another Lee account can be trusted."{{ref|crockett.220}}
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| − | * "Discursive remarks," anonymous manuscript in Utah State Historical Society archives.{{attn}}
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| − | ====304-305====
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| − | * It is claimed that Jacob Hamblin's adoptive son Albert raped two women at the Massacre, and Hamblin would later blame this on John D. Lee.
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Rape by Albert Hamblin|Use of sources: Rape by Albert Hamblin?]]
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| − | ====367====
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| − | * Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."
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| − | *{{SourceDistortion}}: [[../Use of sources/Alexander on reasons|Use of sources: Alexander on reasons]]
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| − | * Thomas G. Alexander, ''Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History'' (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132. {{attn}}
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| − | * The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
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| − | * {{AuthorQuote|Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....}}
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | #{{note|priesthood.ordain}} {{BYUS1|author=Lawrence Coates|article=Review of ''Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows''|date=January 2003|vol=31|num=1|start=153–}} {{link|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Reviews/Pages/reviewdetail.aspx?reviewID=95}}
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| − | #{{note|crockett.220}} {{FR-15-2-11}} <!--Crocket on Bagley-->
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