Authors of "Vengeance Is Mine" discuss the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath, including what Brigham Young knew or did about the atrocity.

In spring 1859, more than 18 months after the massacre, U.S. Army Capt. Reuben Campbell and his troops camped at Mountain Meadows, where he ordered surgeon Charles Brewer and a detachment of ...

The first book, “Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath” (Oxford, May 30), co-written by historians Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown, has been years in the ...

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre In September 1857, the militiamen and their Paiute helpers launched an attack on the Baker-Fancher party. The emigrants circled their wagons during a four-day siege.

Mountain Meadows Massacre In 1857 an Arkansas wagon train on its way through Southern Utah was attacked by Mormon settlers. Over a hundred people were murdered, with the exception of at least 17 ...

B ullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain ...

In the wake of the many previous accounts of the massacre itself — prominent among them Juanita Brooks' seminal "Mountain Meadows Massacre" in 1950, Will Bagley's "Blood of the Prophets" in 2004 ...

The composers of the all-new Broadway-bound musical, The Way Way West, will perform the songs from this exciting original ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of violent attacks that occurred between September 7–11, 1857 in Utah Territory. Over those days, members of the Mormon militia, ...