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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Contributor(s): Bagley, Will (Author)

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ISBN: 0806136391     ISBN-13: 9780806136394
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2004
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Annotation: Bagley presents an authoritative investigation of Brigham Young and events surrounding the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre. Includes maps and 36 b&w illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
- Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon)
Dewey: 979.247
LCCN: 2001057996
Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.96" W x 10" L (2.10 lbs) 493 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Geographic Orientation - Utah
- Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Books & Culture 09/01/2007 pg. 35
 
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Publisher Description:
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.

Contributor Bio(s): Bagley, Will: - Will Bagley is an independent historian who has written about overland emigration, frontier violence, railroads, mining, and the Mormons. Bagley has published extensively over the years and is the author and editor of many books, articles, and reviews in professional journals. Bagley is the series editor of Arthur H. Clark Company's documentary history series, KINGDOM IN THE WEST: The Mormons and the American Frontier. Bagley has been a Wallace Stegner Centennial Fellow at the University of Utah and the Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellow in American History at Yale University's Beinecke Library. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows has won numerous awards including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America, the Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, Westerners International Best Book, and the Western History Association Caughey Book Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 is the first of four volumes of Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails Series.
 
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