Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 13

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A FAIR Analysis of:
American Massacre
A work by author: Sally Denton

Claims made in Chapter 13: "Cedar City, April 7, 1859"

190

Claim
According to "historian Polly Aird," the Parrish and Potter murders committed during the Mormon reformation were "the best documented case of killing for the sin of apostasy" and "involved the entire church reporting line from Brigham Young down."

Author's source(s)

  • Polly Aird, "Escape from Zion: The United States Army Escort of Mormon Apostates, 1859," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 44/3 (Fall 2001): 196-237.

Response


190

Claim
The author mentions the "execution-style killing of six California emigrants."

Author's source(s)

  • No source provided.

Response


190

Claim
The author mentions that "castration and murder of another apostate."

Author's source(s)

  • No source provided.

Response


190

Claim
The author mentions "blood atonement killings by Danite Porter Rockwell."

Author's source(s)

  • No source provided.

Response


193

Claim
The author claims that there was a "burgeoning traffic of apostates now fleeing Zion" because of the Mountain Meadows affair and that this was "the largest emigration up to that time, overshadowing even the California gold rush of 1852."

Author's source(s)

  • Aird, 197.

Response
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200

Claim
Paiute chiefs said that they were not there at the beginning of the massacre and only became involved "under written orders from Brigham Young."

Author's source(s)

  • U.S. House of Representatives, Utah and the Mormons, 17.

Response

  •  Absurd claim: Paiute chiefs would have been unable to read any letter from Brigham Young, even if such had existed.[1]


== Notes ==

  1. [note]  Robert D. Crockett, "The Denton Debacle (Review of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857)," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 135–148. off-site