Innocent blood : essential narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bigler, David L., 1927-, Bagley, Will, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman, Okla. : Arthur H. Clark Company, 2008.
Series:Kingdom in the West ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "I am a poor wayfaring stranger" : the Arkansas families
  • "Travelin' through this world below" : the Mormon reformation
  • "Dark clouds are going to gather 'round me" : the murder of Parley Parker Pratt
  • "My way'll be rough and steep" : the emigrants go south
  • "I'm only going over Jordan" : first reports of the emigrant massacre
  • "Only goin' over home" : not one left to tell the story
  • "The Santa Clara Expedition" : the Army cracks the case
  • "Survivors of Sebastopol" : the children
  • "A dose of rope" : fire from within and more obstruction
  • "The bar of justice" : the trials of John D. Lee
  • "The old man never flinched" : Lee's execution
  • "Not an accessory before or after the fact"
  • "The sheerest nonsense" : damning the dead and inventing the Missouri wildcats
  • "These painted blood-thirsty Indians" : participant accounts
  • "You don't forget the horror": the survivors remember
  • "The shadow of treachery and death" :the legacy of mountain meadows.