Might be a good idea for them to keep on moving on, at least until they're well past Mountain Meadows, do you think?
Also, there’s a wagon train from Arkansas just pulled into Utah, heading for California, maybe some trouble brewing.
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Read the book “The Mountain Meadows Massacre” by Juanita Brooks. It’s very well researched and well written. I once lived in Southern Utah, and visited the site a few times. It’s an eerily foreboding place, knowing what happened there. A little stream flows gurgling past, overgrown with water cress, and a hill nearby from which the Mormons fired down upon the encircled wagons of the encampment for several days until they hatched a plan of trickery. Most of the people in Cedar City and the Virgin River valley have lived there for generations, and you won’t get any information from them. A hundred years or so later a monument was finally erected on the site of the mass burial, but NOT by the people of Cedar City or the Hurricane/Virgin River Valley.
Also, there are a few works by and about John Doyle Lee which are well worth a read. Strange how when I lived there nearly everyone in the little town of Virgin was named Lee.