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*Critics wish to make Brigham Young and apostle George A. Smith complicit in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Thus, critics claim that prior to the massacre, George A. Smith is claimed to "have carried orders to Cedar City leaders to incite their people to avenge the blood of the prophets" (Denton, 186). | *Critics wish to make Brigham Young and apostle George A. Smith complicit in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Thus, critics claim that prior to the massacre, George A. Smith is claimed to "have carried orders to Cedar City leaders to incite their people to avenge the blood of the prophets" (Denton, 186). | ||
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Lee is wrong on those events which we can verify, and no other evidence supports this claim. | Lee is wrong on those events which we can verify, and no other evidence supports this claim. | ||
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Lee is wrong on those events which we can verify, and no other evidence supports this claim.
One reviewer dismissed the thin evidence upon which this claim rests:
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