MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE
\mˈa͡ʊntɪn mˈɛdə͡ʊ mˈasəkə], \mˈaʊntɪn mˈɛdəʊ mˈasəkə], \m_ˈaʊ_n_t_ɪ_n m_ˈɛ_d_əʊ m_ˈa_s_ə_k_ə]\
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In the autumn of 1857, a body of thirty-six Arkansas and Missouri emigrants en route to California, were brutally murdered at Mountain Meadow, Utah, by a band of Indians, who were incited thereto by Lee, a Mormon fanatic. It was the period of the first troubles between the United States Government and the Mormons. Brigham Young had made threats of turning the Indians loose upon west-bound emigrants, but the Mormons, as a body, were innocent of the massacre. The emigrant party was encamped at Mountain Meadow when the attack began, September 7. They threw up earthworks and defended themselves for four days. Lee, under pretence of friendship, succeeded in drawing them out and murdering the whole party.
By John Franklin Jameson
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