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

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Alfred Hylas Henry. By Order of the Prophet; A Tale of Utah Chicago, IL: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1902. 390.

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[p. 390]

In the meanwhile, events of world-wide interest were happening in other portions of the territory. The fiendish crime at Mountain Meadows was perpetrated in September, whereby one hundred and twenty unarmed, unresisting, innocent and inoffensive men, women and children were butchered in cold blood by Indians and white men, instigated and led by members of the Mormon priesthood.