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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
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About this work
Author: Will Bagley
Quote mining, selective quotation and distortion
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| 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. |
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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.