Mountain Meadows Massacre - Hardcover

Brooks, Juanita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806105496 ISBN 13: 9780806105499

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967

Synopsis

The massacre of 120 emigrant men, women, and children at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, by Mormons and Mormon-incited Indians shocked the nation. It was not until the spring of 1859 that federal authorities began to conduct inquiries into the massacre. Bvt. Major James H. Carleton, 1st Dragoons, was instructed to investigate the even while en route to Salt Lake City. Carleton's account of May 1859 from the bone-strewn ground is full, accurate, and understandably emotional.

About this title

About the Author:

Juanita Brooks held appointment as a field fellow of the Henry E. Huntington Library and was enabled to carry out the original research for her book by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. She was the author of two other books and edited, with Robert Glass Cleland, A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee (Henry E. Huntington Library. 1955)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0806105496
• ISBN 13: 9780806105499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 329