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:survivor recollections used as source material is a serious flaw in the book. Sarah Baker [one witness] was 3 when the massacre claimed her parents. Trial testimony showed that participants in the crime had been ordered never to speak of it, even among themselves. Surviving children were parceled out to Mormon families. The two Baker girls went to John D. Lee's home. What opportunity was there to learn anything of the massacre? | :survivor recollections used as source material is a serious flaw in the book. Sarah Baker [one witness] was 3 when the massacre claimed her parents. Trial testimony showed that participants in the crime had been ordered never to speak of it, even among themselves. Surviving children were parceled out to Mormon families. The two Baker girls went to John D. Lee's home. What opportunity was there to learn anything of the massacre? | ||
− | ::Baker's own statement that her information came from reading and from discussion with contemporaries only confirms that she had no special knowledge. One would expect a child to be traumatized by the massacre and incapable of adequately understanding what was happening around her.{{ | + | ::Baker's own statement that her information came from reading and from discussion with contemporaries only confirms that she had no special knowledge. One would expect a child to be traumatized by the massacre and incapable of adequately understanding what was happening around her. <ref>Harold Schindler, "'Mountain Meadows' Account Lacks Substantiation (review of ''Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith'' by Anna Jean Backus)," ''Salt Lake Tribune'' (17 March 1996). See similar remarks in {{BYUS1|author=Lawrence Coates|article= review of Anna Jean Backus "Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith''|date=1996–97|vol=36|num=4|start=225–}} {{link|url= http://byustudies.byu.edu/reviews/pages/reviewdetail.aspx?reviewID=226}}</ref> |
− | * Reports of apostates joining the wagon train did not appear until many years after the Massacre.{{ | + | * Reports of apostates joining the wagon train did not appear until many years after the Massacre. <ref>{{MMM1|start=109-110}}</ref> For the author to be persuasive on this point, more information (e.g., identity of the supposed murdered apostates) is needed. |
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*Anna Jean Backus, ''Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith'' (Arthur H. Clark Co, 1996), 136. | *Anna Jean Backus, ''Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith'' (Arthur H. Clark Co, 1996), 136. | ||
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The "scheme to blame the atrocity on the Indians" is claimed to have been conceived and crafted "with the characteristic meticulousness for which Brigham Young was famous." | The "scheme to blame the atrocity on the Indians" is claimed to have been conceived and crafted "with the characteristic meticulousness for which Brigham Young was famous." | ||
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− | * Leaders in southern Utah were already planning to blame the Massacre on Indians before Brigham Young had even heard of it. After an initial skirmish with the party, one of the immigrants was killed and another wounded. "A witness of white involvement had now shared the news within the emigrant corral. If the surviving emigrants were freed and continued on to California, word would quickly spread that Mormons had been involved in the attack....Despite plans to pin the massacre on the Paiutes—and persistent subsequent efforts to do so—Nephi Johnson later maintained that his fellow militiamen did most of the killing."{{ | + | * Leaders in southern Utah were already planning to blame the Massacre on Indians before Brigham Young had even heard of it. After an initial skirmish with the party, one of the immigrants was killed and another wounded. "A witness of white involvement had now shared the news within the emigrant corral. If the surviving emigrants were freed and continued on to California, word would quickly spread that Mormons had been involved in the attack....Despite plans to pin the massacre on the Paiutes—and persistent subsequent efforts to do so—Nephi Johnson later maintained that his fellow militiamen did most of the killing." <ref>{{Ensign|author=Richard E. Turley Jr.|article=The Mountain Meadows Massacre|date=September 2007|start=14|end=21}}{{link|url=http://www.lds.org/mountain-meadows-massacre}}</ref> |
− | * Jacob Hamblin testified that he told Brigham the facts soon after the massacre. Hamblin reported that Brigham said that "as soon as we can get a court of justice, we will ferret this thing out, but till then don't say anything about it." Hamblin said that Lee's trial was "the first time I ever felt that any good would come of it [telling the story]. I kept it to myself until it was called for in the proper place."{{ | + | * Jacob Hamblin testified that he told Brigham the facts soon after the massacre. Hamblin reported that Brigham said that "as soon as we can get a court of justice, we will ferret this thing out, but till then don't say anything about it." Hamblin said that Lee's trial was "the first time I ever felt that any good would come of it [telling the story]. I kept it to myself until it was called for in the proper place." <ref>Jacob Hamblin, (September 1876), "Testimony of Jacob Hamblin" {{link|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leetestimony.html#JACOB_HAMBLIN}}</ref> |
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Chapter 9 | A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton
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Some who have been apostates for years past are beginning to come back to us; and, inasmuch as they did not stand and be valiant for the truth, we are now going to place them in the front ranks, and put them to the test.
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