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Darkest Day in Mormon History: The Mountain Meadows MASSACRE
In 1857, a wagon train of 137 men, women, and children was slaughtered in the Utah Territory by Mormon militia and their ...
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
In the supercharged atmosphere of war, this was enough; local Mormon militia decided to attack the emigrants with the assistance of Paiute Indians. They struck at dawn on September 7, 1857 ...
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The Brink of War
a secret Mormon group called the Sons of Dan, or Danites, responded in kind. That August, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an order to his state militia directing that the Mormons "be ...
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
In the supercharged atmosphere of war, this was enough; local Mormon militia decided to attack the emigrants with the assistance of Paiute Indians. They struck at dawn on September 7, 1857 ...