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| Chapter 19 | A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Will Bagley
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Appendix |
Claims made in "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"
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Claim
- Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."
Author's source(s)
- Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132. [ATTENTION!]
Response
- Misrepresentation of source: Use of sources: Alexander on reasons
378
Claim
- The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response
379
Claim
- Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....
Author's source(s)
- [ATTENTION!]
Response
- Prejudicial or loaded language