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}} | |sublink1=Response to claim: 129 - Will Bagley claimed that Mountain Meadows was known among the Mormons as "a preferred location for the quiet execution of unpleasant tasks" | ||
|sublink2=Response to claim: 129 - Will Bagley claimed that Mountain Meadows was known among the Mormons as "a preferred location for the quiet execution of unpleasant tasks" | |||
|sublink3=Response to claim: 131 - The author claims that "numerous apostates" were traveling with the Fancher Train by the time it reached Mountain Meadows | |||
|sublink4=Response to claim: 133- The author claims that William Bateman, who had weeks earlier been "threatened with excommunication for apostasy," was given a chance to redeem himself by "carrying out church orders at Mountain Meadows" | |||
|sublink5=Response to claim: 135 -"The recommendation of the many apostates in the camp would never be known, or whether they considered their fellow Mormons capable of such cold-blooded treachery" | |||
|sublink6=Response to claim: 136a - The author claims that Joseph Smith "had his first vision in 1820" and then three years later reported that he was "surrounded by 'a pillar of light' during a visitation from the angel Moroni" | |||
|sublink7=Response to claim: 136b - The author claims that Brigham Young called his enemies "Christians" and that the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois because they "had been unable to live in peace with their neighbors" | |||
|sublink8=Response to claim: 136g - Did Brigham order the rock cairn memorial at the scene of the massacre dismantled? | |||
|sublink9=Response to claim: 137 - The author claims that the "Mormon apostate refugees" were "blood atoned" | |||
|sublink10=Response to claim: 141 - "Neither that tally nor any later count would include the Mormon "backouts" murdered that day" | |||
|sublink11=Response to claim: 141 - John D. Lee claimed that Brigham Young advised them to claim that the massacre was performed by Indians alone | |||
|sublink12=Response to claim: 142 - The "scheme to blame the atrocity on the Indians" is claimed to have been conceived and crafted "with the characteristic meticulousness for which Brigham Young was famous" | |||
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Index to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
A FAIR Analysis of: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows A work by author: Sally Denton
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within FairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.
Introduction
Summary: Claims made in "Introduction: The Cairn" (xx–xxiii)Chapter 1
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 1: Palmyra, 1823" (3–11)Chapter 2
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 2: Kirtland/Far west, 1831" (12–21)Chapter 3
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 3: Nauvoo, 1840" (22–39)Chapter 4
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 4: Winter Quarters—Council Bluffs, 1846" (40–60)Chapter 5
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 5: Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849" (61–75)Chapter6
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 6: Sevier River, October 26, 1853" (76–92)Chapter 7
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 7: Harrison, March 29, 1857" (93-103)Chapter 8
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 8: Deseret, August 3, 1857" (104–117)Chapter 9
Summary: Claims made in "Chapter 9: The Southern Trail, August 3, 1857" (118-127)No claims in this chapter are addressed at the present time.