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One Lds church historian even breaks it down perpetrator by perpetrator.

Colofornian,

And still there are those who repeat the story of Mountain Meadow Massacre
over and over to wrongfully imply that the actions were the way all travelers were treated by Mormons as thay traveled through the Utah territory.

And still there are those who repeat the story of Mountain Meadow Massacre over and over to wrongfully imply that the actions were the way all travelers were treated by Mormons as thay traveled through the Utah territory.

Of course...once it got out widely about how the Baker-Fancher parties were treated by the Mormons, how many wagon trains do you think made it their point to traverse West thru Utah?

#2...we know that the one-armed John Wesley Powell Civil War vet who became the first white man to ride the Colorado River thru the Grand Canyon had a few companions who ventured North into Utah Territory...not thinking they would be able to continue the river journey thru alive with the limited rations they had left...

Stories later emerged that Mormons had killed them...as journal entries were later found among Lds about some terrible deed they had done.

#3 And then stories also emerged in the 1850s that the land surveyor Gunnison and his party was targeted by Mormons when he returned to Utah Territory...because his 1852 book was THE FIRST that widely revealed Utah Mormon polygamy, causing Brigham Young to finally have to publicly acknowledge its practice. Sally Denton writes about that in her book on the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

And still there are those who repeat the story of Mountain Meadow Massacre over and over to wrongfully imply that the actions were the way all travelers were treated by Mormons as thay traveled through the Utah territory.

THOSE who?

Name names!

Show your work or be discounted.

Show your work or be discounted.

"I am a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do not believe everything that is now being taught and practiced by Brigham Young.

I do not care who hears it. It is my last word - it is so.

I believe he is leading the people astray, downward to destruction.

But I believe in the gospel that was taught in its purity by Joseph Smith, in former days.

I have my reasons for it.

"I studied to make this man's [Brigham Young] will my pleasure for thirty years.

See, now, what I have come to this day!

"I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner." (Lee enunciated this sentence with marked emphasis.)

Excerpted from --> http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leeexecution.html