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Response
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Author's sources
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9
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- Author's quote: ...[Mormons gave] total submission to a leader they considered ordained by God....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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."[1]
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- "Discursive remarks," anonymous manuscript in Utah State Historical Society archives. [ATTENTION!]
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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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