"Horrible Massacre of Emigrants!!" The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Public Discourse

About the Project

"Horrible Massacre of Emigrants!!": The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Public Discourse is an electronic archive of newspaper accounts, reports from the government investigation, early Massacre histories in works of Western Americana, and Apostate and Anti-Mormon publications. Works of fiction, drama, and film also will be included. The focus of the archive is on the public portrayals the event and its aftermath, rather than the details of the massacre.

Within the collection, digital tools have created visualizations of textual elements that may suggest their significance. A timeline illustrates the spread of news about the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath. Browsing and search functions make the archive accessible from multiple points.

If you have information to share about the contents of this digital archive, please contact:

Douglas Seefeldt
Assistant Professor of History
dseefeldt2@unl.edu
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-4100
(402) 472-4547 (Center)

Project Staff

Douglas Seefeldt — Project Director, UNL
Laura Weakly — Metadata Encoding Specialist, UNL
Zach Bajaber — Digital Resources Designer, UNL
Brian L. Pytlik Zillig — Digital Initiatives Librarian, UNL

Graduate Research Assistants

Leslie Working, UNL (summer 2006- )
Tonia Compton, UNL (fall 2005 - spring 2006)

Consultant

Will Bagley