The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Contributor(s): Lewis (Author), Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530104068 ISBN-13: 9781530104062 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2016 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.44 lbs) 144 pages |
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Publisher Description: Almost a half century ago, being in 1857, John Doyle Lee, a chief among that red brotherhood, the Danites, was ordered by Brigham Young and the leading counselors of the Mormon Church to take his men and murder a party of emigrants then on their way through Utah to California. The Mormon orders were to "kill all who can talk," and, in their carrying out, Lee and his Danites, with certain Indians whom he had recruited in the name of scalps and pillage, slaughtered over one hundred and twenty men, women, and children, and left their stripped bodies to the elements and the wolves. This wholesale murder was given the title of "The Mountain Meadows Massacre." Twenty years later, in 1877, the belated justice of this Government seated Lee on his coffin, and shot him to death for his crimes. |