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Response to claims made in "Chapter 7: The Knife and Tomahawk"

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

A work by author: Will Bagley

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Claim

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."

Author's source(s)

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Response

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

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