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Revision as of 09:48, 26 October 2008

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About this work

Author: Will Bagley


Quote mining, selective quotation and distortion

Quote used... The rest of the story...
Bagley quotes D.B. Huntington, Brigham Young's interpreter, as saying that the Piedes band of Indians were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise [allies]" (brackets by Bagley).

Huntington's journal entry for 1 September 1857 actually says they were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise grain.

  • Blood of the Prophets (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 114.
  • Lawrence Coates, review of Blood of the Prophets, BYU Studies 42/1 (2003): 156. PDF link
  • Robert D. Crockett, "A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 199–254. off-site

Commentary

  • Driven by his passion to indict Brigham Young in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Bagley — a professional historian — seriously distorts the historical record, changing the clear reading in Huntington's handwritten journal in an attempt to manufacture evidence.


Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

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Videos

Shining New Light on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Gene A. Sessions , 2003 FAIR Conference