Summary
As the dozens if not hundreds of books, newspaper articles, debates, discourses, dissertations, monuments, ancestral associations that hold annual conventions and now a full-length movie timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the atrocity attest, the Mountain Meadows Massacre is never going to die.
Why this is so is open to about as much conjecture as to why a band of otherwise God-fearing, church-going, peace-loving Mormon men slaughtered some 120 defenseless men, women and children who were part of a wagon train in the Mountain Meadows area southwest of Cedar City on Sept. 11, 1857.See the full content of this document
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Massacre Apparently Will Never Die
Some would suggest the event's uncommon staying power is commensurate with the awfulness of the crime....
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