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The '''[[Mountain Meadows Massacre]]''' was caused in part by events relating to the [[Utah War]] (May 1857 – July 1858), an armed confrontation in [[Utah Territory]] between the [[United States Army]] and [[Mormon pioneers]]. In the summer of 1857, however, Mormons experienced a wave of '''war hysteria''', expecting an all-out invasion of [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] significance. From July to September 1857, Mormon leaders prepared Mormons for a seven-year siege predicted by [[Brigham Young]]. Mormons were to stockpile grain, and were prevented from selling grain to emigrants for use as cattle feed. As far-off Mormon colonies retreated, [[Parowan, Utah|Parowan]] and [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar City]] became isolated and vulnerable outposts. Brigham Young sought to enlist the help of Indian tribes in fighting the "Americans", encouraging them to steal cattle from emigrant trains, and to join Mormons in fighting the approaching army.
In August 1857, [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|Mormon apostle]] [[George A. Smith]], of Parowan, set out on a tour of southern Utah, instructing Mormons to stockpile grain. Scholars have asserted that Smith's tour, speeches, and personal actions contributed to the fear and tension in these communities, and influenced the decision to attack and destroy the [[Baker–Fancher party|Baker–Fancher]] emigrant train near Mountain Meadows, Utah. He met with many of the eventual participants in the massacre, including [[William H. Dame]], [[Isaac Haight]], and [[John D. Lee]]. He noted that the militia was organized and ready to fight, and that some of them were anxious to "fight and take vengeance for the cruelties that had been inflicted upon us in the States"{{citation needed|date=October 2007}}. On his return trip to Salt Lake City, Smith camped near the Baker–Fancher party. [[Jacob Hamblin]] suggested the Fanchers stop and rest their cattle at Mountain Meadows. Some of Smith's party started rumors that the Fanchers had poisoned a well and a dead ox, in order to kill Indians, rumors that preceded the Fanchers to Cedar City.{{citation needed|date=March 2008}}. Most witnesses said that the Fanchers were in general a peaceful party that behaved well along the trail.{{citation needed|date=May 2010}}
Among Smith's party were a number of [[Southern Paiute people|Paiute]] Indian chiefs from the Mountain Meadows area. When Smith returned to Salt Lake, Brigham Young met with these leaders on September 1, 1857, and encouraged them to fight against the "Americans". The Indian chiefs were reportedly reluctant. Some scholars theorize, however, that the leaders returned to Mountain Meadows and participated in the massacre.{{citation needed|date=April 2009}} However, it is uncertain whether they would have had time to do so.
==Background==
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In early 1857, several groups of emigrants from the northwestern [[Arkansas]] region started their trek to California, joining up on the way and known as the [[Baker–Fancher party]]. This group was relatively wealthy, and planned to restock its supplies in [[Salt Lake City]], as most wagon trains did at the time. The party reached Salt Lake City with about 120 members. In Salt Lake, there was an unsubstantiated rumor that the widow of the [[revered]] Mormon [[martyr]] [[Parley P. Pratt]] recognized one of the party as being present at her husband's murder.<ref>{{Harvnb|Stenhouse|1873|p=431}} (citing "Argus", an anonymous contributor to the ''Corinne Daily Reporter'' whom Stenhouse met and vouched for).</ref>
For the decade prior to the Fanchers' arrival there, [[Utah Territory]] existed as a [[theocracy]] led by [[Brigham Young]]. As part of Young's vision of a pre-[[Millennialism|millennial]] "Kingdom of God", Young established colonies along the [[California Trail|California]] and [[Old Spanish Trail (trade route)|Old Spanish Trails]], where Mormon officials governed by "lay[ing] the ax at the root of the tree of sin and iniquity", while preserving individual rights.<ref>In 1856, Young said "the government of God, as administered here" may to some seem "despotic" because "[i]t lays the ax at the root of the tree of sin and iniquity; judgment is dealt out against the transgression of the law of God"; however, "does not [it] give every person his rights?" {{Harvnb|Young|1856|p=256}}.</ref> Two of the southernmost establishments were [[Parowan, Utah|Parowan]] and [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar City]], led respectively by [[Stake President]]s William H. Dame and [[Isaac C. Haight]]. Haight and Dame were, in addition, the senior regional military leaders of the [[Nauvoo Legion|Mormon militia]]. During the period just before the massacre, known as the [[Mormon Reformation]], Mormon teachings were dramatic and strident. The religion had undergone a period of intense [[religious persecution|persecution]] in the American midwest, and faithful Mormons made solemn oaths to pray for vengeance upon those who killed the "prophets" including founder [[Joseph Smith]] and most recently apostle [[Parley P. Pratt]], who was murdered in April 1857 in [[Arkansas]].
==Utah War==
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[[File:ASJohnston.jpg|right|thumb|'''[[Albert S. Johnston]]'''<br/>''General commanding U.S. expeditionary force sent to subdue<br/>"[[Utah War|Mormon Rebellion]]"'']]
In July 1857, while the Baker–Fancher party was en route to [[Utah Territory]], Mormons began hearing rumors<ref>Church leaders mentioned such rumors in sermons as early as July 2 (Heber C. Kimball: JD 5:86) and July 5, 1857 {{Harvnb|Young|1857c|p=5}} (referring to rumors of the approaching troops and warning them to stay away).</ref> that the United States had launched an expedition to [[invasion|invade]] the territory and [[deposition (politics)|depose]] its theocratic government. For almost a decade, relations between Utah and the federal government had deteriorated over the issue of [[polygamy]] and the role of Mormon institutions versus that of federal ones in the territory.<ref>In 1856, the newly formed [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] had campaigned against Mormon [[plural marriage|practices of polygamy]] as "relics of barbarism", and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[James Buchanan]], assuming office in March 1857, was under political pressure to subdue the perceived Mormon rebellion.</ref> By July 1857, Young's replacement, [[Alfred Cumming (governor)|Alfred Cumming]], was appointed, and a fourth of the entire [[Regular Army (United States)|U.S. army]], some 2,500 [[dragoons]], were already on the march{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}.
As news of the approaching army spread, the coming invasion took on [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] significance. Mormons saw it as a threat to their existence.<ref>George A. Smith, August 2, 1857, JD 5:101; {{Harvnb|Young|1875}} (at the time of the massacre, the Mormon leadership believed reports that the troops had the "ostensible design for destroying the Latter-day Saints").</ref> Members of the [[First Presidency (LDS Church)|First Presidency]] framed the confrontation as a battle between the Kingdom of God and minions of the Devil.<ref>{{Harvnb|Young|1857d|p=75}} (teaching on July 26, 1857 that "God has commenced to set up his kingdom on the earth, and all hell and its devils are moving against it."); Heber C. Kimball, August 2, 1857, JD 5:129 ("The world is going to seek to destroy us from the earth. (Voice: 'They will destroy themselves.') They will destroy themselves, as the Lord liveth, and the day of their destruction has come. (Voices: 'Amen'.)").</ref> Some Mormons in southern Utah taught that the invasion was the beginning of the [[Millennialism|Millennium]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Lee|1877|p=251}}.</ref> and the prevailing understanding there was that the U.S. Army intended to wipe out the Mormons as a people.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hamblin|1876}}; {{Harvnb|Morrill|1876}}.</ref> In preparation for a seven-year siege predicted by Brigham Young, Mormon leaders began accelerating an existing program for stockpiling grain.<ref>{{Harvnb|Huntington|1857|p=2}} (counseling Native Americans to stockpile all the berries and wheat they could glean in preparation for the seven-year siege predicted by Brigham Young); Heber C. Kimball, August 23, 1857, JD 5:171; Heber C. Kimball, September 6, 1857, JD 5:213 (predicting that imminently, "the people of the nations will come by hundreds and by thousands for food, and for raiment, and for protection" in the Utah Territory).</ref> Mormons were told to sell their clothing to buy as much grain as possible,<ref>Heber C. Kimball, September 6, 1857, JD 5:213.</ref> and not to use grain as animal feed nor sell it to emigrants for this purpose.<ref>{{Harvnb|Young|1875}}; {{Harvnb|Smith|1875}}.</ref>
Defiant against the United States, Brigham Young warned "mobocrats", particularly past Mormon persecutors and the "priests, editors, and politicians who have howled so long about us", to stay away from the territory, or "we will attend to their cases".<ref>{{Harvnb|Young|1857c|pp=5–6}}.</ref> He stated that if such persons entered the territory, "they will find a '[[vigilante|Vigilance Committee]]'" and they will "find the [[Danites]]".<ref name="Harvnb|Young|1857c|p=6">{{Harvnb|Young|1857c|p=6}}</ref> But Young denounced plans by Mormons to rob "innocent" emigrant trains, saying that such robbers ''themselves'' would "be overtaken by a 'Vigilance Committee'".<ref name="Harvnb|Young|1857c|p=6" /> He wanted to ensure that "the good and honest may be able to pass from the Eastern States to California...in ''peace''".<ref name="Harvnb|Young|1857c|p=6" />
Young ordered pioneer settlements furthest afield to pull up stakes–evacuating colonies in [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]] (southern California), [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] (southern Nevada), [[Genoa, Nevada|Carson Valley]] (western Nevada), and [[Fort Bridger]] (western Wyoming).<ref>{{Harvnb|MacKinnon|2003}}.</ref> Thereafter, the farthest remaining outpost of Mormonism were the outlying Mormon colonies at [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar City]] (led by Stake President-Major Isaac C. Haight) and [[Parowan, Utah|Parowan]] (led by Stake President-Colonel William H. Dame), two infant fortress-villages near Mountain Meadows where the massacre took place. These settlements were nearly 300 miles from the [[Salt Lake City]] headquarters, and only reachable by a three days' journey on horseback,{{citation needed|date=June 2007}} the messengers changing mounts at various settlements along the way.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gibbs|1910|p=13}}.</ref> Mormons in and around the Cedar City area were to be the first defense against an attack from the south which the Mormons feared and which the US Army was preparing for.<ref name=IvesOnTheColorado>{{citation |jstor= 41695038 |author= David H. Miller |title= The Ives Expedition Revisited a Prussian's Impressions |year= 1972 |journal= The Journal of Arizona History |volume= 13 |issue= 1 |pages= 1–25 |publisher= Arizona Historical Society }}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Briggs|2006|p=318}}.</ref> The word from Mormon headquarters was that the approaching [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] had orders to murder every believing Mormon,<ref>George A. Smith, August 2, 1857, JD 5:101; {{Harvnb|Young|1875}} (at the time of the massacre, the Mormon leadership believed reports that the troops had the "ostensible design for destroying the Latter-day Saints"); {{Harvnb|Hamblin|1876}} (saying this was the understanding among southern Utah Mormons).</ref> and that the troops were coming directly from [[Missouri]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Smith|1857|p=221}}</ref>
On August 5, 1857, Brigham Young declared [[martial law]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Young|1857a}}</ref> All borders were to be sealed to further travel through Utah by emigrants.<ref>{{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|p=93}} As a Mormon woman evacuating Carson Valley explained, "The last trains of this year would not get through, for they were to be cut off."</ref> Young also made it illegal to travel through Utah without a permit,<ref name = "proclamation">{{Harvnb|Young|1857}}; {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002}}; {{Harvnb|Denton|2005|pp=114–115}}.</ref> but no safe conduct pass was made available to the Baker–Fancher train by Territorial or local officials.{{citation needed|date=August 2007}} The party would not have been aware of Young's decree as it was only made public on September 15, 1857.<ref name="Harvnb|Young|1857a">{{Harvnb|Young|1857a}}.</ref>
Emigrant trains arriving from the east presented an opportunity for Mormons to trade or sell foodstuffs and other supplies, and until the [[Utah War]], most were friendly and willing to help travelers pass through the [[Utah Territory]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Stenhouse|1873|p=428}}.</ref> The Baker–Fancher train encountered residents along the way who were obeying Young's recent order to stockpile supplies in expectations of all-out war with approaching U.S. troops.<ref name="shirts">{{Harvnb|Shirts|1994}}.</ref> The Mormons were directed not to sell any food to the enemy, as the emigrant train was labeled.<ref>{{Harvnb|Abanes|2002|pp=245, 566}}; {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|p=98}}.</ref>
==George A. Smith's circuit through southern Utah==
On August 3, 1857, [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|Mormon apostle]] [[George A. Smith]]<ref>Smith was a territorial legislator and a member of the [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]]. In the Nauvoo Legion, he was just a private (see George A. Smith [July 4, 1852], JD 1:79; {{Harvnb|Smith|1875}}), although one Parowan resident understood that part of the purpose of Smith's trip was to organize the regiment, inspect the troops, and provide instructions (see {{Harvnb|Martineau|1857}}).</ref> left Salt Lake City to visit the southern Utah communities.<ref>{{Harvnb|Smith|1857|p=221}} (saying he left the day after his last Salt Lake sermon, recorded at JD 5:101).</ref> He arrived at [[Parowan, Utah|Parowan]] on August 8, 1857,<ref name="Martineau 1857">{{Harvnb|Martineau|1857}}.</ref> and on August 15, 1857, he set off on a tour of Stake President-Colonel W. H. Dame's military district.<ref>{{Harvnb|Martineau|1857}}. In addition to Parowan, the tour included visits to [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar City]] and Santa Clara, and the groups stopped at Mountain Meadows to eat dinner on August 20 (see {{Harvnb|Martineau|1857}}) with a group of missionaries who lived there (see {{Harvnb|Smith|1857|p=222}}).</ref> During the tour, Smith gave military speeches<ref name=221-225>{{Harvnb|Smith|1857|pp=221–225}}</ref> and counseled Mormons that they prepare to "touch fire to their homes, and hide themselves in the mountains, and to defend their country to the very last extremity."<ref>{{Harvnb|Smith|1857|p=221}}; {{Harvnb|Smith|1857|p=221}} (Smith warned Cedar City residents "it might be necessary to set fire to our property, and hide in the mountains").</ref> Smith instructed Mormons to stockpile grain, and not to sell it to emigrants for animal feed. Scholars have asserted that Smith's tour, speeches, and personal actions contributed to the fear and tension in these communities, and influenced the decision to attack and destroy the Baker–Fancher emigrant train near Mountain Meadows, Utah. <ref>{{Harvnb|Smith|1875}}; {{Harvnb|Hamblin|1876}} (Smith was sent to represent "Young's mind" that Mormons "save everything like breadstuff, and use it when we wanted it"); {{Harvnb|Lee|1877|pp=221–22}}(quoting Smith as saying, "I have been sent down here by the old Boss, Brigham Young, to instruct the bretheren of the different settlements not to sell any of their grain to our enemies. And to tell them not to feed it to their animals, for it will all be needed by ourselves.").</ref> [[John D. Lee]] accompanied Smith on part of this tour,<ref>{{Harvnb|Lee|1877|pp=221–22}}.</ref> during which Smith addressed a group of Native Americans in Santa Clara, counseling them that "the Americans" were approaching with a large army, and were a threat to the Native Americans as well as the Mormons.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lee|1877|pp=223}}.</ref> Riding in a wagon afterwards, Lee said he warned Smith that the Native Americans would likely attack emigrant trains, and that Mormons were anxious to avenge the blood of the prophets,<ref>{{Harvnb|Lee|1877|pp=223–225}}.</ref> and according to Lee, Smith seemed pleased, and said "he had had a long talk with Major Haight on the same subject".<ref name=221-225/>
Major [[Isaac C. Haight]], the stake president of [[Cedar City, Utah|Cedar City]], met with Smith again on August 21.<ref name="Martineau 1857"/> Haight told Smith he had heard reports that 600 troops were already approaching Cedar City from the East, and that if the rumors were true, Haight would have to act without waiting for instructions from Salt Lake City. Smith agreed, and "admired his grit".<ref name=221-225/> Smith later said he was uncomfortable, perhaps "on account of my extreme timidity", because some of the militia members were eager that "their enemies might come and give them a chance to fight and take vengeance for the cruelties that had been inflicted upon us in the States", such as the [[Haun's Mill massacre]].<ref name=221-225/>
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On his return to Salt Lake City, Smith was accompanied by a party including [[Jacob Hamblin]] of [[Santa Clara, Utah|Santa Clara]], a newly appointed Mormon missionary to the Natives in the region who also ran a federally funded Indian farm near Mountain Meadows.<ref>In addition to [[Jacob Hamblin]], the party included Philo T. Farnsworth and Elisha Hoops from [[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]], Silas S. Smith and Jesse N. Smith from [[Parowan, Utah|Parowan]] ({{Harvnb|Smith|1875}}; "Case of the Defense", ''Salt Lake Tribune'', August 3, 1875) and Thales Haskell from Santa Clara. Silas S. and Jesse N. Smith were cousins of George A. Smith (id.).</ref>
Also traveling north with the Smith party were several Native chiefs from southern Utah Territory<ref>these chiefs included Ammon, Kanosh, Tutsegabit, and Youngwids ({{Harvnb|Brooks|1950|p=27}}; {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|p=113}}).</ref> On August 25, 1857, Smith's group camped next to the Baker–Fancher party, headed the opposite direction, at Corn Creek (now [[Kanosh, Utah|Kanosh]]). Smith later said he had no knowledge of the Baker–Fancher party prior to meeting them on the trail.<ref>{{Harvnb|Smith|1875}}.</ref> When the Baker–Fancher party inquired about places to stop for water and grazing, Jacob Hamblin directed them to Mountain Meadows,<ref>{{Harvnb|Carleton|1859|pp=2–4}}</ref> near his home and, the Indian farm, a regular stopover on the [[Old Spanish Trail (trade route)|Old Spanish Trail]].
Some members of Smith's party later testified that during their encampment they saw the Baker–Fancher party poison a spring and a dead ox, with the expectation that Native Americans would be poisoned.<ref>Testimonies of Elisha Hoops and Bishop Philo T. Farnsworth, "Case of the Defense", ''Salt Lake Tribune'', August 3, 1875.</ref> Silas S. Smith, the cousin of George A., testified that the Baker–Fancher party suspiciously asked whether the Native Americans would eat a dead ox.<ref>{{Harvnb|Briggs|2006|p=320}}.</ref> Although the poisoning story supported the Mormon theory that Native Americans had been poisoned and therefore conducted a massacre on their own,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brooks|1950|p=185}}; George A. Smith in the ''Journal History of the Church'' reported allegations concerning the poisoning of several springs and that this action by members of the Baker–Fancher train gave the Native Americans "a determination to exterminate the emigrants."</ref> Modern historians generally discount the testimony and rumors about the poisoned ox and spring as false.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brooks|1950|p=105}} ("The poisoned meat story was unlikely, while the poisoned springs was quite clearly fabrication; to poison a running stream of any size would take a great amount of poison, and if several Saints had died, their names and homes and other details would have been given."); {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|pp=109–10}}; {{Harvnb|Turley|2007}} ("Historical research shows that these stories are not accurate. While it is true that some of the emigrants' cattle were dying along the trail, including near Fillmore, the deaths appear to be the result of a disease that affected cattle herds on the 1850s overland trails. Humans contracted the disease from infected animals through cuts or sores or through eating the contaminated meat. Without this modern understanding, people suspected the problem was caused by poisoning."); {{Harvnb|Forney|1859}} ("I regard the poisoning affair as entitled to no consideration. In my opinion, bad men, for a bad purpose, have magnified a natural circumstance for the perpetration of a crime that has no parallel in American history for atrocity.")</ref> Nevertheless, the poisoning story preceded the Fanchers on their trip southward.<ref>{{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|pp=110}} (citing George Davis, of the Duke party that followed the Fanchers and camped at the same site in Corn Creek).</ref>
==Interactions on road toward Mountain Meadows==
[[File:Southern Utah map c. 1857, Bancroft p. 550.PNG|thumb|right|Map of the California trail in southern Utah at the time of the massacre.<ref>{{Harvnb|Bankroft|1889|p=550}}</ref>]]
The Mormons considered the emigrants of an [[Alien (law)|alien status]] because of Young's orders forbidding travel through Utah without a required pass – which the Baker–Fancher party did not have.<ref name="shirts"/> However, Captains Baker and Fancher may not have been aware of Young's martial law order since it was not made public until September 15, 1857.<ref name="Harvnb|Young|1857a"/>
The Fancher and Duke parties (respectively from Arkansas and Missouri) having assisted each other on their western journeys, it was believed by some locals that the Fancher party was joined by eleven members of a Missouri militia calling itself the "Wildcats". (Yet there is debate on whether these miners and plainsmen stayed with the slow-moving Baker–Fancher party after leaving Salt Lake City,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brooks|1950|p=xxi}}.</ref> or actually existed.)<ref name = "bagley">{{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|p=280}}</ref>
Meanwhile, the Mormons that the Baker–Fancher train encountered along the way were obeying Young's order to stockpile supplies in expectations of all-out war with approaching U.S. troops and declined to trade with the Fanchers. This friction was added to by the "[[range war]]" that would be expected to erupt between local populations and any emigrants' leading vast herds of cattle – and indeed, both the Fancher and Duke parties' stock would compete with locals' for grazing and sometimes would break through the Mormon colonists' fences. With the murder and the expulsion of U.S. Government surveyors, there was no demarcation of the territorial lands claimed by Native Americans, Mormons, and those that the Americans purchased from Mexico ([[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]]).<ref>[http://www.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=1642]|Professional Surveyor Magazine</ref> Yet in the war panic, such mundane complaints escalated into more ominous charges.
For example, according to John D. Lee, "They swore and boasted openly... that Buchanan's whole army was coming right behind them, and would kill every God Damn Mormon in Utah.... They had two bulls which they called one "Heber" and the other "Brigham", and whipped 'em through every town, yelling and singing... and blaspheming oaths that would have made your hair stand on end."<ref name="pbs2001">{{cite web |year=2007 |url = https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/four/mountain.htm|title = Death runs Riot – Mountain Meadows|publisher = [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]| access-date =August 21, 2007 |quote=They swore and boasted openly... that Buchanan's whole army was coming right behind them, and would kill every God Damn Mormon in Utah.... They had two bulls which they called one "Heber" and the other "Brigham", and whipped 'em through every town, yelling and singing... and blaspheming oaths that would have made your hair stand on end.}}</ref>
While [[Jacob Hamblin]] was in Salt Lake City he heard that the Fanchers had "behaved badly [...and had] robbed hen-roosts, and been guilty of other irregularities, and had used abusive language to those who had remonstrated with them. It was also reported that they threatened, when the army came into the north end of the Territory, to get a good outfit from the weaker settlements in the south."<ref>{{Harvnb|Hamblin|1881|pp=42–43}}</ref>
John Hawley traveling to his home in Washington, U.T., overtook the Fancher Party 150 miles South of Provo and traveled with them 3 days. Hawley found them to be men of families and a large drove of cattle all going to locate in California. The captain told him they had trouble with the Mormons at Salt Creek and Provo when their cattle crossed into the Mormon's herd ground and a Dutchman in their party would not obey the authorities. The captain told him that they intended to obey all the laws and rules of the territory. Hawley went on to say "I am satisfied the Saints gave them more trouble than they ought".<ref>{{Harvnb|Bagley|2008|P=109}}</ref>
In his report of his investigation of the massacre, Superintendent for Indian Affairs in Utah Territory, Jacob Forney<ref>Forney's report, given to U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, A.B. Greenwood, was printed in Senate Executive Document 42 of the [[36th United States Congress]] in response to Senate requests for all the official documents relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre</ref> said: "I [...made] strict inquiry relative to the general behavior and conduct of the company towards the people of this territory ..., and am justified in saying that they conducted themselves with propriety."
In Forney's interview with David Tullis who had been living with [[Jacob Hamblin]], Tullis related that "[t]he company passed by the house...towards evening.... One of the men rode up to where I was working, and asked if there was water ahead. I said, yes. The person who rode up behaved civilly."<ref>{{Harvnb|Thompson|1860|pp=75–80}}</ref>
In addition, William Rogers later related where Shirts related he "saw the emigrants when they entered the valley, and talked with several of the men belonging to it. They appeared perfectly civil and gentlemanly."<ref>Conversation between Carl (possibly Carlts) Shirts, Forney and himself. Shirts had been employed by Hamlin making adobe bricks at the time. (See {{Harvnb|Rogers|1860}}.)</ref>
==Brigham Young's attempt to enlist Native Americans to fight "the Americans"==
Brigham Young, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the [[Utah Territory]], built strong diplomatic ties with the area's [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American tribes]]. When it became clear there would be an invasion by U.S. troops, he sought to enlist them to join Mormons in fighting the "Americans".
On August 4, 1857, Young notified [[Jacob Hamblin]] that he was appointed President of the Santa Clara Indian Mission and instructed him to continue a conciliatory policy towards the Indians. "..they must learn that they either got to help us, or the United States will kill us both".<ref>{{Harvnb|MacKinnon|2008|p=233}}</ref>
Young sent his trusted interpreter [[Dimick B. Huntington]] to various tribes with wagon loads of food. Huntington told Native Americans that the [[Utah War]] was a battle, prophesied in the ''[[Book of Mormon]]'', between Mormons and Native Americans, on the one hand, and "gentiles" (non-Mormon whites) on the other.<ref>{{Harvnb|Huntington|1857|pp=11–12}}.</ref> Young's message for the tribes was that they should "be at peace with all men except the Americans".<ref>{{Harvnb|Huntington|1857|pp=3–13}}.</ref> Scholars disagree whether Young intended the Native American tribes to fight all non-Mormon Americans, including emigrants, or just the approaching U.S. Army.<!--
FOOTNOTE--><ref>Sources arguing that Young sought to enlist Native Americans in a war against all "gentiles", including emigrants, include {{Harvnb|Brooks|pp=40–42}}; {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|pp=113–114}}; {{Harvnb|Denton|2003|p=158}}. Sources arguing that Native American leaders were only authorized to fight the Army and steal emigrant cattle, but not fight emigrants, include {{Harvnb|Crockett|2003}} ("When Brigham Young told the Native American tribes he wanted assistance in fighting the Americans, he meant only the army.").</ref>
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No disapproval was expressed by Huntington when told by Shoshones that cows, horses, and mules had been stolen from Californians.<ref>{{Harvnb|Huntington|1857|p=4}}.</ref> Wilford Woodruff recorded Young's message to the Mormon apostles on August 26, 1857, "The Gentile emigrants [will] shoot the indians wharever they meet with them & the Indians now retaliate & will kill innocent People.",<ref name="Bagley 2002 p=114">{{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|p=114}}.</ref> On August 30, 1857, Huntington gave a group of northern tribes "all the beef cattle & horses that was on the road to Cal[i]fornia, the North rout[e]".
On September 1, 1857, frontiersman James Gemmell was in Young's office with Hamblin, who had accompanied the group of tribal leaders (including [[Ammon (Ute chief)|Ammon]], [[Kanosh (Pahvant Chief)|Kanosh]], [[Tutsegabit]], and [[Youngwuds]]), and [[George A. Smith]] on his return to Salt Lake, all of whom had camped near the Baker–Fancher party.
When Hamblin told Young that the Arkansas train was near Cedar City, Young said, according to Gemmell (whose statement derives from an 1896 posthumous source named Wheeler), that if he were in charge of the Nauvoo Legion he "would wipe them out."<ref name="Bagley 2002 p=114"/> These chiefs then met with Huntington and Brigham Young, where the Native American leaders were given "all the cattle that had gone to Cal. the south rout[e]." The Native American leaders questioned this, because previously, the Mormons had told them not to [[cattle raid|steal cattle]]. Young acknowledged this, but said, "now they have come to fight us & you, for when they kill us then they will kill you."<ref>{{Harvnb|Huntington|1857|pp=7–13}}.</ref> Modern scholars generally agree that Brigham Young was authorizing Native American leaders to steal emigrant cattle.<!--
FOOTNOTE--><ref>{{Harvnb|Brooks|pp=40–42}}; {{Harvnb|Bagley|2002|pp=113–114}}; {{Harvnb|Denton|2003|p=158}}; {{Harvnb|Bigler|1998|pp=167–68}}; {{Harvnb|Whitney|2007}} (historian [[Glen Leonard]] argues that Young instituted "a new policy [to] allow the Indians to take the cattle, which will teach the government a lesson that [Mormons] can't control the Indians."); {{Harvnb|Crockett|2003}} (arguing that Young "asked Indian tribal leaders to help scatter the cattle of the army and of all emigrants on the trail in front of the army in order to completely close the trail.")</ref><!--
--> And there is evidence that a policy that Native Americans should steal emigrants' cattle was put into effect against emigrant groups other than the ''Fancher–Baker'' party.<ref>However, scholars disagree whether the southern Native American tribal leaders could have returned to the Mountain Meadows area in time to participate in the siege of the Baker–Fancher party,{{citation needed|date=July 2007}} especially given that two of these leaders, Tutsegabit and Youngwids, returned to Salt Lake some time between September 10 and 16, where Young ordained Tutsegubbets an [[Elder (Latter Day Saints)|Elder]].{{citation needed|date=July 2007}}</ref>
==Notes==
{{Reflist}}
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| publisher=[[University of Missouri-Kansas City]] School of Law
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| date=February 29, 1860
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| pages=2–3
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| publisher=D. Appleton
| place=New York
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| place=Washington, D.C.
| publisher=U.S. Dept. of the Interior
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| author-link = Richard E. Turley, Jr.
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| magazine = [[Ensign (LDS magazine)|Ensign]]
| place = Salt Lake City
| publisher = [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]
| issn = 0884-1136 <!-- [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=1.1/LNG=EN/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8&TRM=0884-1136 0884-1136] -->
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| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=True Happiness—Fruits of Not Following Counsel—Popular Prejudice Against the Mormons—The Coming Army—Punishment of Evildoers
| date=July 5, 1857c  <!-- | year=1857c -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses Delivered by President Brigham Young, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Calkin
| editor-first=Asa
| volume=5
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=Asa Calkin
| publication-date=1858
| pages=1–6
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/JournalOfDiscourses3,2375
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#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=Nebuchadnezzar's Dream—Opposition of Men and Devils to the Latter-Day Kingdom—Governmental Breach of the Utah Mail Contract
| date=July 26, 1857d  <!-- | year=1857d -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses Delivered by President Brigham Young, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Calkin
| editor-first=Asa
| volume=5
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=Asa Calkin
| publication-date=1858
| pages=72–78
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/JournalOfDiscourses3,2304
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#{{Citation
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| first= Brigham
| title= Proclamation by the Governor
| publisher= Utah Territory
| place= Salt Lake City
| date= August 5, 1857a  <!-- | year=1857a -->
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#{{Citation
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| date=August 4, 1875
| place=Salt Lake City
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| volume=24
| issue=27
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,737649
| page=8
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{{refend}}
==Further reading==
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#{{Citation
| last=Abanes
| first=Richard
| author-link=Richard Abanes
| year=2003
| title=[[One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church]]
| place=New York
| publisher=Four Walls Eight Windows
| isbn=1-56858-283-8
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Bancroft
| first=Hubert Howe
| author-link=Hubert Howe Bancroft
| title=The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Utah, 1540–1886
| volume=26
| year=1889
| place=San Francisco
| publisher=History Company
| lccn=07018413
| id=LCC F826.B2 1889
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2OwNAAAAIAAJ
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#{{Citation
| last=Beadle
| first=John Hanson
| year=1870
| title=Life in Utah
| chapter=Chapter VI. The Bloody Period.
| place=Philadelphia
| publisher=National Publishing
| pages=177–195
| lccn=30005377
| id=LCC BX8645 .B4 1870
| url=https://archive.org/details/crimeofmormonism00beadrich
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#{{Citation
| last=Buerger
| first=David John
| title=The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship
| edition=2nd
| place=Salt Lake City
| publisher=[[Signature Books]]
| year=2002
| isbn=1-56085-176-7
}}.
#{{Citation
| last1=Burns
| first1=Ken
| author1-link=Ken Burns
| last2=Ives
| first2=Stephen
| title=New Perspectives on the West (Documentary)
| publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]
| place=Washington, D.C.
| year=1996
| url=http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/
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#{{Citation
| last1=Cannon
| first1=Frank J.
| author-link1=Frank J. Cannon
| last2=Knapp
| first2=George L.
| title=Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire
| year=1913
| place=New York
| publisher=Fleming H. Revell Co.
| url=https://archive.org/details/brighamyoungandh003273mbp
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#{{Citation
| editor-last=Carrington
| editor-first=Albert
| editor-link=Albert Carrington
| title=The Court & the Army
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| date=April 6, 1859
| volume=9
| issue=5
| page=2
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,7309
}}.
#{{Citation
| editor-last=Carrington
| editor-first=Albert
| editor-link=Albert Carrington
| title=Mountain Meadows Massacre
| journal=[[Deseret News]]
| date=1 December 1869
| volume=18
| issue=43
| pages=6–7
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews2,41456
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#{{Citation
| last=Christian
| first=J. Ward  <!-- | contribution=Letter to G.N. Whitman -->
| place=San Bernardino
| date=October 4, 1857
| editor-last=Hamilton
| editor-first=Henry
| title=Horrible Massacre of Arkansas and Missouri Emigrants
| newspaper=Los Angeles Star
| publication-date=October 10, 1857
| url=http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/misccal1.htm#101057
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Cradlebaugh
| first=John
| author-link=John Cradlebaugh
| title=Utah and the Mormons: a Speech on the Admission of Utah as a State
| date=February 7, 1863
| place=[[37th United States Congress]], 3rd Session
| url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=063/llcg063.db&recNum=798
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#{{Citation
| last=Cradlebaugh
| first=John
| author-link=John Cradlebaugh
| title=Discharge of the Grand Jury
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/valleytan,632
| page=3
| editor-last=Anderson
| editor-first=Kirk
| newspaper=Valley Tan
| date=March 29, 1859
| volume=1
| issue=22
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Dunn
| first=Jacob Piatt
| title=Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West
| year=1886
| place=New York
| publisher=Harper & Brothers
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=78ohAAAAMAAJ
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#{{Citation
| last=Erickson
| first=Dan
| title=Joseph Smith's 1891 Millennial Prophecy: The Quest for Apocalyptic Deliverance
| journal=[[Journal of Mormon History]]
| year=1996
| volume=22
| issue=2
| pages=1–34
| url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/jmh,14280
}}.
#{{Citation
| last1=Fancher
| first1=Lynn-Marie
| last2=Wallner
| first2=Alison C.
| title=1857: An Arkansas Primer To The Mountain Meadows Massacre
| year=2006
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Fillmore
| first=Millard
| author-link=Millard Fillmore
| contribution=I nominate Brigham Young, of Utah, as governor of the Territory of Utah
| date=September 26, 1850
| contribution-url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llej&fileName=008/llej008.db&recNum=253&itemLink=D?hlaw:5:./temp/~ammem_Pmtl::%230080255&linkText=1
| page=252
| title=Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
| volume=8
| editor-last=McCook
| editor-first=Anson G.
| publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office|GPO]]
| location=Washington, D.C.
| publication-date=1887
}}
#{{Citation
| last = Finck
| first = James
| contribution = Mountain Meadows Massacre
| year = 2005
| title = Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
| editor-last = Dillard
| editor-first = Tom W.
| place = Little Rock, Arkansas
| publisher = Encyclopedia of Arkansas Project
| url = http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=129
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Fisher
| first=Alyssa
| title=A Sight Which Can Never Be Forgotten
| date=2003-09-16
| publisher=Archaeological Institute of America
| journal=Archaeology
| url=http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/massacre/meadows.html
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Ford
| first=Thomas
| author-link=Thomas Ford (politician)
| title=A History of Illinois, from its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
| year=1854
| place=Chicago
| publisher=S.C. Griggs & Co.
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mgOAAAAIAAJ
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#{{Citation
| last=Grant
| first=Jedediah M.
| author-link=Jedediah M. Grant
| title=Discourse
| date=March 12, 1854a
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| volume=4
| issue=20
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews1,175293
| publication-date=July 27, 1854
| pages=1–2
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Grant
| first=Jedediah M.
| author-link=Jedediah M. Grant
| contribution=Fulfilment of Prophecy—Wars and Commotions
| date=April 2, 1854
| title=Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| volume=2
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=F.D. & S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1855
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/JournalOfDiscourses3,5989
| pages=145–49
}}.
#{{Citation
| editor-last=Hamilton
| editor-first=Henry
| title=Horrible Massacre of Arkansas and Missouri Emigrants
| newspaper=Los Angeles Star
| date=October 10, 1857
| url=http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/misccal1.htm#101057
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Higbee
| first=John M.
| date=February 1894
| contribution=Statement
| pages=226–35
| editor-last=Brooks
| editor-first=Juanita
| editor-link=Juanita Brooks
| publication-date=1950
| title=[[The Mountain Meadows Massacre (book)|The Mountain Meadows Massacre]]
| location=Norman, Oklahoma
| publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]
| isbn=0-8061-2318-4
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Hurt
| first=Garland
| date=October 24, 1857
| title=Letter from Garland Hurt, Utah Territorial Indian Agent, to Col. A.S. Johnston, U.S. Army
| url=http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Letters%20from%20Nevada%20Indian%20Agents%201857.htm
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=August 27, 2006
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827033759/http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Letters%20from%20Nevada%20Indian%20Agents%201857.htm
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Kimball
| first=Heber C.
| author-link=Heber C. Kimball
| contribution=The Body of Christ-Parable of the Vine-A Wile Enthusiastic Spirit Not of God-The Saints Should Not Unwisely Expose Each Others' Follies
| date=January 11, 1857a
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, and the Twelve Apostles]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=4
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1857
| pages=164–81
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV04/JoD_v04#page/n171/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9596 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Kimball
| first=Heber C.
| author-link=Heber C. Kimball
| contribution=Limits of Forebearance-Apostates-Economy-Giving Endowments
| date=August 16, 1857b
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, and the Twelve Apostles]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=4
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1857
| pages=374–76
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV04/JoD_v04#page/n381/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9596 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Kimball
| first=Heber C.
| author-link=Heber C. Kimball
| contribution=Greater Responsibilities of Those Who Know the Truth, &c.
| date=August 28, 1859
| title=[[Journal of Discourses Delivered by President Brigham Young, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Lyman
| editor-first=Amasa
| editor-link=Amasa Lyman
| volume=7
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=Amasa Lyman
| publication-date=1860
| pages=231–37
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/JournalOfDiscourses3,2913
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Klingensmith
| first=Philip
| date=September 5, 1872
| place=Lincoln County, Nevada
| title=Mountain Meadows Massacre
| editor-last=Toohy
| editor-first=Dennis J.
| newspaper=Corinne Daily Reporter
| publication-date=September 24, 1872
| publication-place=Corinne, Utah
| volume=5
| issue=252
| page=1
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/corinne,5359
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Klingensmith
| first=Philip
| title=Testimony, First trial of John D. Lee
| place=Beaver City, Utah
| date=July 23–24, 1875
| publisher=Mountain Meadows Association
| publication-place=Braintree, MA
| url=http://www.mtn-meadows-assoc.com/klingensmith.htm
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Linn
| first=William Alexander
| title=The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of their Origin to the Year 1901
| publisher=Macmillan
| place=New York
| year=1902
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDdAAAAAYAAJ <!-- http://thedigitalvoice.com/enigma/1902LinA.htm -->
}} ([https://archive.org/details/thestoryofthemor00linnuoft scanned versions]).
#{{Citation
| last=Lynch
| first=James
| date=July 22, 1859
| title=Affidavit of James Lynch Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre September 1857 Sworn Testimony
| url=http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Letters%20from%20Nevada%20Indian%20Agents%201859.htm
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=September 26, 2006
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926215739/http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Reading%20Room%20Documents/Letters%20from%20Nevada%20Indian%20Agents%201859.htm
}}; also included in Brooks (1991) Appendix XII.
#{{Citation
| last=MacKinnon
| first=William P.
| title=Loose in the stacks, a half-century with the Utah War and its legacy
| journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
| volume=40
| issue=1
| year=2007
| pages=43–81
| doi=10.2307/45227155
| jstor=45227155
| s2cid=254387152
| url=http://www.dialoguejournal.com/excerpts/4001.pdf
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=March 26, 2009
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326183624/http://www.dialoguejournal.com/excerpts/4001.pdf
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=McMurtry
| first=Larry
| author-link=Larry McMurtry
| year=2005
| title=Oh what a slaughter: massacres in the American West, 1846-1890
| place=New York
| publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]
| isbn=0-7432-5077-X
| url=https://archive.org/details/ohwhatslaughterm00mcmu
}}. BookReporter.com [http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/074325077X.asp review].
#{{Citation
| last=Melville
| first=J. Keith
| title=Theory and Practice of Church and State During the Brigham Young Era
| journal=[[BYU Studies]]
| volume=3
| issue=1
| year=1960
| pages=33–55
| url=https://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/PDFSRC/3.1Melville.pdf
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Mitchell
| first=William C.
| title=List of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Victims, Letter to A. B. Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.
| date=April 26, 1860
}}.
#{{Citation
| last1 = Novak
| first1 = Shannon
| last2 = Rodseth
| first2 = Lars
| title = Remembering Mountain Meadows: Collective violence and manipulation of social boundaries
| journal = Journal of Anthropological Research
| volume = 62
| issue = 1
| pages = 1–25
| issn = 0091-7710
|  year = 2006
| doi = 10.3998/jar.0521004.0062.101
| s2cid = 53689855
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Parshall
| first=Ardis E.
| title='Pursue, Retake and Punish': The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush
| journal=Utah Historical Quarterly
| volume=73
| issue=1
| year=2005
| pages=64–86
| doi=10.2307/45063638
| jstor=45063638
| s2cid=254438137
| url=http://history.utah.gov/history_programs/utah_historic_quarterly/table_of_contents/documents/Winter2005-v73-01.pdf
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=August 19, 2008
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819183728/http://history.utah.gov/history_programs/utah_historic_quarterly/table_of_contents/documents/Winter2005-v73-01.pdf
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Penrose
| first=Charles W.
| author-link=Charles W. Penrose
| title=An Unpardonable Offense
| date=July 4, 1883
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| volume=32
| issue=24
| page=376
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews6,14057
}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.
#{{Citation
| last=Pratt
| first=Parley P.
| author-link=Parley P. Pratt
| title=Marriage and Morals in Utah
| date=December 31, 1855
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| volume=5
| issue=45
| publication-date=January 16, 1856
| pages=356–57
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews1,3298
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Pratt
| first=Steven
| title=Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt
| journal=[[BYU Studies]]
| volume=15
| issue=2
| year=1975
| pages=225–56
| url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/pdfSRC/15.2Pratt.pdf
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=July 12, 2007
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712170240/http://byustudies.byu.edu/shop/pdfSRC/15.2Pratt.pdf
}}.
#{{Citation
| last1=Prince
| first1=Gregory A.
| author-link1=Gregory Prince
| last2=Wright
| first2=Wm. Robert
| author-link2=Wm. Robert Wright
| title=[[David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism]]
| publisher=[[University of Utah Press]]
| place=Salt Lake City
| year=2005
| isbn=0-87480-822-7
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Quinn
| first=D. Michael
| author-link=D. Michael Quinn
| publisher=[[Signature Books]]
| place=Salt Lake City
| year=1997
| isbn=1-56085-060-4
| title=The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Quinn
| first=D. Michael
| author-link=D. Michael Quinn
| title=LDS 'Headquarters Culture' and the Rest of Mormonism: Past and Present
| year=2001
| journal=[[Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought]]
| volume=34
| issue=3–4
| pages=135–64
| doi=10.2307/45226795
| jstor=45226795
| s2cid=254336477
| url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,27817
| doi-access=free
| access-date=October 15, 2007
| archive-date=February 7, 2009
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207001839/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u/?%2Fdialogue%2C27817
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Sessions
| first=Gene
| year=2003
| title=Shining New Light on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
| journal=FAIR Conference 2003
| publisher=[[Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research|FAIR]]
| url=http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/conf/2003SesG.html
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Smart
| first=Donna T.
| contribution=Pratt, Parley Parker
| contribution-url=http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/p/PRATT_PARLEY.html
| editor-last=Powell
| editor-first=Allen Kent
| title=Utah History Encyclopedia
| year=1994
| place=Salt Lake City
| publisher=[[University of Utah Press]]
| isbn=0-87480-425-6
| oclc=30473917
}}.
#{{Citation
| last = Smith
| first = Christopher
| title = Forensic Study Aids Tribe's View Of Mountain Meadows Massacre
| newspaper = [[Salt Lake Tribune]]
| issn = 0746-3502 <!-- [http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/DB=1.1/LNG=EN/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=8&TRM=0746-3502 0746-3502] -->
| page = A1
| date = January 21, 2001
| url = http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Twain
| first=Mark
| author-link=Mark Twain
| title=Roughing It
| publisher=American Publishing
| year=1873
| location=Hartford, Conn.
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKgvAAAAMAAJ
}}; also: ''[[Roughing It]]''.
#{{Citation
| last=Waite
| first=C.V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)
| title=The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, an Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
| year=1868
| place=Chicago
| publisher=J.S. Goodman & Co.
| url=https://archive.org/details/mormonprophetand00waitiala
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Walker
| first=Ronald W.
| author-link=Ronald W. Walker
| title="Save the emigrants," Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows massacre
| journal=[[BYU Studies]]
| volume=42
| issue=1
| year=2003
| pages=139–152
| url=http://byustudies.byu.edu/Shop/PDFSRC/42.1Walker.pdf
}}.
#{{citation
|last=Webb
|first=Loren
|date=September 16, 1990
|title=Time for healing, LDS leader says about massacre
|newspaper=Saint George Spectrum
}}.
#{{Citation
| last1=Whitney
| first1=Helen
| author1-link=Helen Whitney
| last2=Barnes
| first2=Jane
| title=The Mormons
| publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]
| place=Washington, D.C.
| year=2007
| url=http://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/script.html
}}; also [[The Mormons (documentary)|The Mormons]] (Documentary).
#{{Citation
|last1         = Young
|first1        = Brigham
|author1-link  = Brigham Young
|last2         = Kimball
|first2        = Heber C.
|author2-link  = Heber C. Kimball
|last3         = Hyde
|first3        = Orson
|author3-link  = Orson Hyde
|last4         = Pratt
|first4        = Parley P.
|author4-link  = Parley P. Pratt
|last5         = Smith
|first5        = William
|author5-link  = William Smith (Latter Day Saints)
|last6         = Pratt
|first6        = Orson
|author6-link  = Orson Pratt
|last7         = Page
|first7        = John E.
|author7-link  = John E. Page
|last8         = Taylor
|first8        = John
|author8-link  = John Taylor (Mormon)
|last9         = Woodruff
|first9        = Wilford
|author9-link  = Wilford Woodruff
|last10        = Smith
|first10       = George A.
|author10-link = George A. Smith
|last11        = Richards
|first11       = Willard
|author11-link = Willard Richards
|last12        = Lyman
|first12       = Amasa M.
|author12-link = Amasa M. Lyman
|title         = Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints
|location      = New York
|publisher     = [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS Church]]
|date          = April 6, 1845
|url           = http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/10164 <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/NCMP1820-1846&CISOPTR=2818 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| title=Speech by Gov. Young in Joint Session of the {{sic|Legeslature|nolink=y}}
| date=February 5, 1852
| location=Salt Lake City
| url=http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Slavery%2C_Blacks%2C_and_the_priesthood&oldid=253414
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=The Kingdom of God  <!-- | year=1853 -->
| date=July 8, 1855
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=2
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=F.D. & S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1855
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/JournalOfDiscourses3,1982
| pages=309–17
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=The Necessity of the Saints Living up to the Light Which Has Been Given Them
| date=March 2, 1856a  <!-- | year=1856a -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=3
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=[[Orson Pratt]]
| publication-date=1856
| pages=221–226
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV03/JoD_v03#page/n227/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9595 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=Instructions to the Bishops—Men Judged According to their Knowledge—Organization of the Spirit and Body—Thought and Labor to be Blended Together
| date=March 16, 1856b  <!-- | year=1856b -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=3
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=[[Orson Pratt]]
| publication-date=1856
| pages=243–49
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV03/JoD_v03#page/n249/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9595 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=Difficulties Not Found Among the Saints Who Live Their Religion—Adversity Will Teach Them Their Dependence on God—God Invisibly Controls the Affairs of Mankind
| date=March 16, 1856c  <!-- | year=1856c -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, the Twelve Apostles, and Others]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=3
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=[[Orson Pratt]]
| publication-date=1856
| pages=254–60
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV03/JoD_v03#page/n261/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9595 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=The People of God Disciplined by Trials—Atonement by the Shedding of Blood—Our Heavenly Father—A Privilege Given to all the Married Sisters in Utah
| date=September 21, 1856d  <!-- | year=1856d -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, and the Twelve Apostles]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=4
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1857
| pages=51–63
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV04/JoD_v04#page/n57/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9596 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=To Know God is Eternal Life—God the Father of Our Spirits and Bodies—Things Created Spiritually First—Atonement by the Shedding of Blood
| date=February 8, 1857b  <!-- | year=1857b -->
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, and the Twelve Apostles]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=4
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1857
| pages=215–21
| contribution-url=https://archive.org/stream/JoDV04/JoD_v04#page/n221/mode/2up <!-- http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=9596 -->
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| contribution=Word of wisdom
| date=April 7, 1867
| title=[[Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, His Two Counsellors, and the Twelve Apostles]]
| editor-last=Watt
| editor-first=G.D.
| editor-link=George D. Watt
| volume=12
| place=Liverpool
| publisher=S.W. Richards
| publication-date=1869
| page=27
| contribution-url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/JournalOfDiscourses3&CISOPTR=10004&REC=4
| access-date=2007-06-24
}}.
#{{Citation
| last=Young
| first=Brigham
| author-link=Brigham Young
| title=Interview with Brigham Young
| date=April 30, 1877
| newspaper=[[Deseret News]]
| publication-date=May 23, 1877
| volume=26
| issue=16
| url=http://udn.lib.utah.edu/u?/deseretnews3,150800
| pages=242–43
}}.
{{refend}}
{{Mountain Meadows massacre series|state=expanded}}
[[Category:Mountain Meadows Massacre]]
[[Category:Hysteria]]