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English
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"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered morethan 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of the...
2) True sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In order to encourage Mormon converts to emigrate to the promised land (Salt Lake City), a plan was implemented by Brigham Young himself: emigrants were outfitted with two-wheeled handcarts. The settlers were then expected to walk, pushing the handcarts, for the 1,300 mile journey from Iowa City. Several 'companies,' as they were called, completed this perilous trek and successfully reached Salt Lake City. But for the Martin Company, one of the very...
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
ix, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journals of the expedition, led by Pratt, of an unusual party of frontiersmen who, challenged by harsh weather and difficult terrain, opened a way for Mormon expansion toward the Pacific coast and along the way documented much about both their new homeland and the native Utes and Paiutes their people would displace.
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. Europeans and Americans over time have mostly avoided, disdained, or ignored it. Wrecks of Human Ambition illustrates how this landscape undercut notions and expectations of good, productive land held by the first explorers, settlers, and travelers who visited it. Even today, its aridity and sandy soils...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xxiv, 493 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the murder of over 120 men, women, and children by Mormon militia and Southern Paiute warriors at Mountain Meadows, Utah, on September 11, 1857, and chronicles the prolonged effort to uncover the truth about the massacre, prosecute the killers, and commemorate the dead.
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