Did any of them actual exact said revenge? Pretty interesting stuff.
Did any of them actual exact said revenge? Pretty interesting stuff.
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There are several accounts in journals that seem to connect violence against ‘gentiles’ (non-mormons) with the oath of vengeance.
Most historians (LDS and not) connect the Mountain Meadows Massacre with this oath of vengeance and that there were rumors that the Francher wagon train had people who were in the mob that killed Smith (that was not true). There is also evidence that Parley P Pratt, when he was killed was in the process of hunting down people thought to be in the mob.
Aside from MMM, there are also several other examples of violence and murder of non-mormons traveling through Utah that are believed to be (or were claimed to be) revenge as a result of this oath.
The MMM museum and library in California has several journals that have these accounts in them, as do other journals and books of the period.
There is also a connection to the LDS doctrine (at the time) of blood atonement, that apostates needed to have their throats slit in order to ‘save’ them.
Some books that cover this would be - “Blood of the Prophets” and “Devils Gate”. I can also give you the names of some of the private journals but they are not online at this time. Wife No 19 (the original not the new fiction book) by one of Young’s ex-wives also mentions it and can be found online. UTLM.org has several online books that discuss this and the accounts as well. All of those resources can be verified through inter-library loan.
And you are right, it is interesting.