Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America's Worst Emigrant Massacre

The article discusses 13 individuals, who achieve brief fame for their claims regarding their involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a series of attacks on the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah in 1857, killing 100-140 members of the wagon train. The ind...

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Main Author: Bashore, Melvin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Foundation 2016
In: Dialogue
Year: 2016, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-39
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBQ North America
KDH Christian sects
Further subjects:B Mormons
B SLOAN, Richard
B MASSACRE survivors
B History
B Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857
B GARRETT, William
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Summary:The article discusses 13 individuals, who achieve brief fame for their claims regarding their involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a series of attacks on the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah in 1857, killing 100-140 members of the wagon train. The individuals include Richard Sloan, William Garrett and Peter Stivers.
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.49.1.0027