9

•  Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....

• Omissions: "total submission"?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

15

• Joseph Smith fought against freedom of the press because of the destruction and suppression of the Expositor.

• Nauvoo Expositor

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

15

• Joseph Smith was charged with seducation, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.

• Nauvoo Expositor
• Joseph Smith and polygamy
• Counterfeiting at Nauvoo?
• Theocracy: Council of Fifty?
• Theocracy: Nauvoo city charter?
• Theocracy: power usurped at Nauvoo?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

50-52

• Blood atonement is presented as an active teaching, as prelude to the Massacre.

• Blood atonement

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

51

• Blood atonement to be implemented for those guilty of "the unpardonable sin."

• Use of sources: unpardonable sin
• Blood atonement

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

58

• Treatment of violent past of Alexander Fancher.

•  Double standard: Double standard: violence in immigrants

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

63

• Treatment of violent past of John "Jack" Baker.

•  Double standard: Double standard: violence in immigrants

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

77

• Author credits the report of Judge William W. Drummond on Mormon "murders."

•  The author's claim is false: William W. Drummond and murders

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

99

• "[A]ll information about the emigrants' conduct came from men involved in their murder or cover-up."

• Junaita Brooks pointed out that accounts of provocation from the immigrants appeared within days as far away California, and from multiple sources.
•  Double standard: Double standard of skepticism

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

121

• The author claims that Mountain Meadows was known among the Mormons as "a preferred location for the quiet execution of unpleasant tasks."

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

137

• 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."

•  Mind reading: author has no way of knowing this.
•  Misrepresentation of source: Brigham Young ordered massacre?
• Brigham Young letter

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

117 and others

• The author frequently refers to dubious, anonymous, or folklore evidence without much skepticism.

• Use of sources: double standards of skepticism

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

119-120

• Account of William Hawley

• Use of sources: William Hawley account

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

143

• Account of William Hawley

• Use of sources: William Hawley account

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

151

• It is claimed that Jacob Hamblin's adoptive son Albert raped two women at the Massacre, which tales "cannot be discounted entirely."

• Use of sources: Rape by Albert Hamblin?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

196

• Brigham gave a gift of salt to the U.S. army, which it was implied was poisoned.

• Use of sources: Gift of salt?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

220

• Bagley claims to have found another source by John D. Lee, upon which he relies.

• "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."^[1]

• "Discursive remarks," anonymous manuscript in Utah State Historical Society archives. ^[ATTENTION!]

304-305

• 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.

• Use of sources: Rape by Albert Hamblin?

•  ^[ATTENTION!]

367

• Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."

•  Misrepresentation of source: Use of sources: Alexander on reasons

• Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132.  ^[ATTENTION!]