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===Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows===
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<td width="50%">Quinn claims that the cost of books described in the advertisements in upstate New York in the 1820s ranged from "44 cents to a dollar each" (p. 182).</td>
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“The total cost of all these books is $81.62, which, divided by the seventy books on the list, provides an average cost of $1.17 per book. Thus, rather than finding a real average price, Quinn attempts to use the range of prices for books ("44 cents to a dollar each"), thereby substantially underestimating the actual costs, since there are far more books costing a dollar or more than there are costing under a dollar.”
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|Bagley quotes D.B. Huntington, Brigham Young's interpreter, as saying that the Piedes band of Indians were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise [allies]" (brackets by Bagley).||
"Quinn did not provide the prices for any of the rare magic books he claims Joseph read, even though such information was readily available in at least one important case. When originally published in England in 1801, Barrett's ''The Magus'' which Quinn repeatedly cites as a source that influenced Joseph cost one pound, seven shillings for the standard edition and one pound, thirteen shillings for the leatherbound edition. In the early nineteenth century, the official rate of exchange was $4.44 to the pound, while the actual rate of exchange was closer to $4.87. Thus in contemporary American currency Barrett's book would cost from $6.57 for the inexpensive edition to $8.04 for the expensive edition, to which would be added shipping costs from Europe. Thus, far from costing between "44 cents to a dollar" (p. 182) as Quinn implies, one of the most important magic books in Quinn's argument would have cost between six and a half and eight dollars. In terms of Joseph's daily wage of fifty cents, this book would represent two to three weeks' work. At the modern minimum wage, this would equate to between $400 and $600 for a single book. Or, to put it another way, to purchase Barrett's ''The Magus'' would have cost the Smiths nearly the value of one month's mortgage on their farm and house.
Huntington's journal entry for 1 September 1857 actually says they were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise ''grain.''
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|<small> *''Blood of the Prophets'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 114.||*Lawrence Coates, review of ''Blood of the Prophets'', ''BYU Studies'' 42/1 (2003): 156.
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*D. Michael Quinn. ''Early Mormonism and the Magic World View'', revised and enlarged edition, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 182.</td></small>
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'''Commentary'''
'''Commentary'''
*Quinn grossly underestimates the cost of books in Joseph Smith's world, especially the esoteric and occult books which he claims were an influence.
*Driven by his passion to indict Brigham Young in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Bagley &mdash; a professional historian &mdash; seriously distorts the historical record, changing the clear reading in Huntington's handwritten journal in an attempt to manufacture evidence.
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

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Bagley quotes D.B. Huntington, Brigham Young's interpreter, as saying that the Piedes band of Indians were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise [allies]" (brackets by Bagley).

Huntington's journal entry for 1 September 1857 actually says they were "afraid to fight the Americans & so would raise grain.

*Blood of the Prophets (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), 114. *Lawrence Coates, review of Blood of the Prophets, BYU Studies 42/1 (2003): 156.
  • Robert D. Crockett, "A Trial Lawyer Reviews Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets," FARMS Review 15/2 (2003): 199–254. off-site PDF link

Commentary

  • Driven by his passion to indict Brigham Young in the Mountain Meadows massacre, Bagley — a professional historian — seriously distorts the historical record, changing the clear reading in Huntington's handwritten journal in an attempt to manufacture evidence.

Resources

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