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− | == | + | ==Response to claim: 237 - Lee's biography, published by his lawyer after his death, claimed that the Church ordered the massacre== |
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Lee's biography, published by his lawyer after his death, claimed that the Church ordered the massacre. | Lee's biography, published by his lawyer after his death, claimed that the Church ordered the massacre. | ||
− | | | + | |propaganda=Lee's self-serving effort to blame others for the massacre is not terribly persuasive in the absence of other corroborating evidence. There is a great deal of contemporaneous evidence which shows that it was ''local'' leaders who ordered the Massacre, not "the Church" or its general leaders such as Brigham Young. |
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*''New York Herald'', March 21, 1876. | *''New York Herald'', March 21, 1876. | ||
*''San Francisco Chronicle'' | *''San Francisco Chronicle'' | ||
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*''Pioche Record'', Pioche, Nevada. | *''Pioche Record'', Pioche, Nevada. | ||
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+ | *{{Detail|Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Brigham Young ordered MMM|l1=Brigham ordered the Massacre?}} | ||
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Chapter 15 | A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton
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Lee's biography, published by his lawyer after his death, claimed that the Church ordered the massacre.Author's sources:
- New York Herald, March 21, 1876.
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Salt Lake Daily Tribune
- Pioche Record, Pioche, Nevada.
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