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xiv
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- Author's quote: ...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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7
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- Author's quote: [celestial marriage] allowed the most ordinary backwoodsman to become a god and rule over worlds of his own creation with as many wives as his righteousness could sustain....
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
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- Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in Under the Banner of Heaven: p. 45.
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15
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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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15
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- Joseph Smith was charged with seduction, polygamy, counterfeiting, and setting up a theocracy.
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16
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 27.
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21
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- Author's quote: [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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27
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- Mormons saw Indians as instrument of vengeance for Joseph's murder.
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27
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- Author's quote: [Joseph Smith] plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls....
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 26.
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33
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- Innuendo about death of federal officials
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- "Another troubling tendency of Bagley’s is his habit of almost—but not quite—accusing Mormondom of criminal acts for which there can be no answer because no real facts are given. Federal officials “died mysteriously” (39), and Wakara died “probably of pneumonia but perhaps from poison,” all following conflicts with Mormons (33)."[1]
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36
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- Author's quote: [missionaries] were called to prepare the Indians for their role in the
impending apocalypse....
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37
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- Indians regarded by Mormons "as a weapon God had placed in their hands."
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39
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- Innuendo about death of Wakara from pneumonia "but perhaps from poison."
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- "Another troubling tendency of Bagley’s is his habit of almost—but not quite—accusing Mormondom of criminal acts for which there can be no answer because no real facts are given. Federal officials “died mysteriously” (39), and Wakara died “probably of pneumonia but perhaps from poison,” all following conflicts with Mormons (33)."[2]
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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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51
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- Blood atonement to be implemented for those guilty of "the unpardonable sin."
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58
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- Treatment of violent past of Alexander Fancher.
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63
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- Treatment of violent past of John "Jack" Baker.
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77
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- Author credits the report of Judge William W. Drummond on Mormon "murders."
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98
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99
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- Author's quote: ...[A]ll information about the emigrants' conduct came from men involved in their murder or cover-up....
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 121.
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101
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- Mormons in American Fork refuse to trade with the Fancher party.
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114
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- Bowie knife to throat? [ATTENTION!]
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121
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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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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 129.
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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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117 and others
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- The author frequently refers to dubious, anonymous, or folklore evidence without much skepticism.
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119-120
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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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151
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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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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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170
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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 or loaded language: Dimmick Huntington said that Tutsegabit was ordained to "preach the gospel & baptize among the house of lsreal [sic]."[3]
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170a
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- Brigham supposedly "rewarded" Indian chief Arapeen with booty from the Massacre.
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- [ATTENTION!]
- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 170.
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196
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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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198
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- Col. Thomas Kane a "hypochondriac."
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246
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- Brigham's trip south in May 1861 was to keep Utahans quiet about the Massacre.
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- Compare treatment in American Massacre: p. 209.
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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."[4]
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- "Discursive remarks," anonymous manuscript in Utah State Historical Society archives. [ATTENTION!]
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269
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- Wandell source is "flawed and sometimes suspect."
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274
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- Wandell letters are "a mix of fact, folklore, and propaganda."
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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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367
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- Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."
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- Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132. [ATTENTION!]
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378
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- The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
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379
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- Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....
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