Jana Riess: “Untangling the truth is difficult, because Latter-day Saints lied to cover their own or their neighbors’ involvement and because the narrative was embellished over time.”
was murdered in Arkansas several months earlier in 1857, the location was largely a coincidence; he was fleeing through the state as he tried to outrun the first husband of one of Pratt’s plural wives. Pratt happened to have just crossed the state line into Arkansas when the first husband caught up to him.
Johnson’s book focuses on the expanding, evolving narrative of Mountain Meadows in the late 19th century and into the 20th. As the general editor of, she spent years poring over more than 3,000 pages of transcripts from the two trials of John D. Lee from the 1870s, nearly two decades after the event.
“If you’re concerned about Indians and you see Mormons uniting themselves with Indians, then Mountain Meadows is your answer. If you are concerned with ideas about manhood and protecting femininity, Mountain Meadows is your ready-fit tool.” So, too, with Americans’ growing concerns about Mormon theocracy, polygamy and race.
All three authors point out that society’s long-standing fixation with Mountain Meadows has a racial component, since other, larger massacres in the 19th century get little public attention by comparison. In those cases, the victims were Native American.
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