The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks

Author:Juanita Brooks [Brooks, Juanita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780806185385
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-09-06T04:30:00+00:00

The arrival of John D. Lee at Mountain Meadows on the day of his execution.

John D. Lee seated on his coffin, awaiting execution.

Now, there was no lack of Mormon witnesses; memories, in general, were much sharpened since the first trial, at which no member in good standing had been willing to testify at all. Attorney Howard now proposed to prove that John D. Lee, without any authority from any officer or council, but in direct opposition to the feelings and wishes of the authorities of the Mormon church, had gone to the Meadows, accompanied only by one little Indian boy, and had assumed command of the Indians, whom he had induced, by promises of great booty, to attack this company of emigrants. He went on to show that Lee had sent word to the various settlements for men to be sent to him under false pretenses, either to help draw off the Indians or to bury the dead, and that these men had gone in response to his call, thinking they were going to perform a humane act; that he had then persuaded the emigrants to leave their enclosure. As to how all these people had been killed, or by whom, Attorney Howard did not pretend to know; his only object in this trial was to show that Lee had murdered some of them.

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