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Title: The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks, Jan Shipps, Fuanita Brooks ISBN: 0-8061-2318-4 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A not unbiased view
Comment: Ms. Brooks is to be commended for the research effort which went into this book, but the sources are so far removed from today and from the first hand knowledge of the occurance as to have only questionable value.
The book is divided into three major parts, the lead-in to the massacre, the massacre and the aftermath.
In the very lengthy first part, Ms. Brooks devotes most of her effort to justifying the slaughter on the basis of self defence, as an American army was approaching the territory for the purpose of restoring US control and the unbelievable assertion that the Fancher train rode through Utah loudly bragging of the involvement of members of the train in the death of John Smith and assaults on Morman communities in Missouri and Illinois. At no point is there reference to the fact that Utah was a US territory and as such subject to US laws and that by his actions in rousing his community against a US army, Brigham Young not only acted as a traitor, but established the atmosphere among Indians and LDS members which led directly to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, whether or not Young approved it in advance.
Ms. Brooks, perhaps horrified by the event itself, mannages only one brief chapter covering the massacre and the heinous acts of the Mormans who participated.
The aftermath, devoted to an attempt to establish that the Church leadership covered-up the facts of the event and selected one relatively innocent soul as a scapegoat, is the most believable and least well documented of the books sections.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Objective Book and Well-Researched.
Comment: Juanita Brook's book was objective on both sides, pointing out the atmosphere among the LDS people at the time of the Mountain Meadows Massacre while also showing the inconsistencies in some of the LDS explanations. If there is one clear point in the book it is that in times of prejudice and war, even good people will do horrific things. This does not justify the massacre but does attempt to explain the paranoia and fear which existed in Southern Utah at that time. I find Juanita's research to be very fair and quite accurate. It parallels the research done by Josiah F. Gibbs in his book which was printed in 1910, much closer to the time of the massacre. Mr. Gibbs is not LDS and it is obvious he does not like the LDS, but certainly his book verifies that the research which Juanita performed was very accurate. Having read many of the books and information regarding this massacre, I believe Juanita has done her research well and attempted to get the truth out. One painfully obvious truth which comes out is the quickness with which the U.S. Government took action in trying to find the guilty parties. Perhaps if they had taken such quickness with the killings and mobbings upon the LDS in Missouri, Illinois and other states, this massacre could have been avoided.
Rating: 5
Summary: the book that open the ugly chapter
Comment: This was the book that first got me interested in the Mountain Meadow Massacre, what I called the 9-11 of 19th Century. It was one of the biggest mass murders in the history of the American west and ironically speaking, the killers were white men, murdering white people in cold blood. With considerable courage, the author painted a very clear picture of what this massacre was all about and within her limited means, gave a cause and effect of the incident. I used that term "limited means" because the author was (now deceased) a member of LDS and she probably compromised some of more inflamatory elements of the massacre so other writers like Will Bagley and Sally Denton can go at it. Her defense of John D. Lee was bit surprising to me but I figured that she knew that Lee was nothing more then a scrapgoat for the Mormon Church. But she did not take any inroads to the actual responsibility of the massacre. Like I wrote in the earlier reviews on books written by Bagley and Denton, I would considered this book to be a valuable first book of three that honestly deal with the Mountain Meadow Massacre.
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Title: No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie ISBN: 0679730540 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley ISBN: 0806134267 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Mormonism Unveiled by John D. Lee ISBN: 0826327885 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0385509510 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: American Massacre : The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 by Sally Denton ISBN: 0375412085 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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