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==Response to claim: 152 - It is claimed that it is "inconceivable that a crime of this magnitude could have occurred" without being directly ordered by Brigham Young== | ==Response to claim: 152 - It is claimed that it is "inconceivable that a crime of this magnitude could have occurred" without being directly ordered by Brigham Young== | ||
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*The initial prosecution of those responsible for the murders failed because federal officials were so anxious to tie them to Brigham Young—but the evidence to do so did not exist. | *The initial prosecution of those responsible for the murders failed because federal officials were so anxious to tie them to Brigham Young—but the evidence to do so did not exist. | ||
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==Response to claim: 153 - The author claims that the murderers reported that a "divine revelation from Brigham Young" was read aloud which commanded them to attack the "cursed gentiles"== | ==Response to claim: 153 - The author claims that the murderers reported that a "divine revelation from Brigham Young" was read aloud which commanded them to attack the "cursed gentiles"== | ||
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Brigham wrote a letter which commanded those in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone. | Brigham wrote a letter which commanded those in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone. | ||
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==Response to claim: 154-155 - Helen Brockett "was told by her grandmother that her great-grandfather J.J. Davidson had been ordered by Brigham Young to go south to participate in the slaughter"== | ==Response to claim: 154-155 - Helen Brockett "was told by her grandmother that her great-grandfather J.J. Davidson had been ordered by Brigham Young to go south to participate in the slaughter"== | ||
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The author here relies on a fourth-hand account—something Brockett's grandmother said that her great-grandfather said that Brigham Young said. This is unpersuasive when contemporary evidence indicates that Brigham ordered the immigrants be allowed to pass unmolested. | The author here relies on a fourth-hand account—something Brockett's grandmother said that her great-grandfather said that Brigham Young said. This is unpersuasive when contemporary evidence indicates that Brigham ordered the immigrants be allowed to pass unmolested. | ||
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* {{BYUS|author=Ronald W. Walker|date=2003|vol=42|num=1|start=139|end=152|article='Save the Emigrants': Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre}} {{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=2083}} | * {{BYUS|author=Ronald W. Walker|date=2003|vol=42|num=1|start=139|end=152|article='Save the Emigrants': Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre}} {{pdflink|url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Products/MoreInfoPage/MoreInfo.aspx?Type=7&ProdID=2083}} | ||
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* {{SecondaryFact}}: the author here likely follows Will Bagley's ''Blood of the Prophets'' which likewise contains a [[Blood_of_the_Prophets:_Brigham_Young_and_the_Massacre_at_Mountain_Meadows#Raising allies?|serious misreading]] of Huntington's journal. | * {{SecondaryFact}}: the author here likely follows Will Bagley's ''Blood of the Prophets'' which likewise contains a [[Blood_of_the_Prophets:_Brigham_Young_and_the_Massacre_at_Mountain_Meadows#Raising allies?|serious misreading]] of Huntington's journal. | ||
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==Response to claim: 159 - The author claims that Indians were not involved with the massacre; it was all Mormons== | ==Response to claim: 159 - The author claims that Indians were not involved with the massacre; it was all Mormons== |
Chapter 10 | A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author: Sally Denton
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The event was referred to as the "blood feast of the Danites."Author's sources:
- No source provided.
It is claimed that it is "inconceivable that a crime of this magnitude could have occurred" without being directly ordered by Brigham Young, and that "[v]irtually every federal officer who became involved in future investigations" of the massacre concluded that Brigham "personally ordered" the attack.Author's sources:
- The author notes that Lee "would have carried out no orders which he thought would be contrary to the wishes of Brigham Young," citing Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, p. 80.
The author claims that the murderers reported that a "divine revelation from Brigham Young" was read aloud which commanded them to attack the "cursed gentiles" and "attack them, disguised as Indians" and "leave none to tell the tale."Author's sources:
- C. V. Waite, The Mormon Prophet and His Harem (1866), 66.
Brigham wrote a letter which commanded those in southern Utah to leave the immigrants alone.
Helen Brockett "was told by her grandmother that her great-grandfather J.J. Davidson had been ordered by Brigham Young to go south to participate in the slaughter." It is claimed that "Young called in the Avenging angels and told them to use bows and arrows to shoot the people in the back after they were already dead to make it look like Indians did it."Author's sources:
- Author's telephone interview with Helen Brockett, October 18, 2002.
The author claims that the Church invented the myth of "poisoned springs."Author's sources:
- The author states in an endnote on page 266 that "the poison tale was never told the same way twice," citing Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 119.
- Compare treatment in Blood of the Prophets: p. 119.
- The author also cites Forney to Greenwood, August 1859, "The Massacre at Mountain Meadows," Harper's.
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It is claimed that on September 1, 1857, Brigham enlisted the support of the Indians "against the wagon train."Author's sources:
- Journal of Dimick Baker Huntington, September 1, 1857.
The author claims that Indians were not involved with the massacre; it was all Mormons.Author's sources:
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