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5. I've been to the massacre site

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2025, 07:50 PM

Jan 2025

It's just north of St. George, Utah. The show made it sound like it was near Ft. Bridger, which it was not. Ft.Bridger is off of I80 east of Evanston WY. There's an excellent but hard to find book on it called "The Mountain Meadows Massacre. The LDS church years ago tried to keep this book off the market by buying up much of the original printing. The victims were mostly California bound families fron Arkansas.

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Watched American Primeval last night on Netflix. It was based on a true story about [View all] doc03 Jan 2025 OP

Mountain Meadows. And it happened on September 11th. Scrivener7 Jan 2025 #1

Religion again brings peace after the slaughter and subjugation. bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #2

Metacom. Scrivener7 Jan 2025 #10

Great Show montanacowboy Jan 2025 #3

Religion has been responsible for about every war in history. The fundamentalst doc03 Jan 2025 #4

I've been to the massacre site CanonRay Jan 2025 #5

I have that book. LisaM Jan 2025 #7

I learned about it from a friend earlier this week. First I'd ever heard of it. paulkienitz Jan 2025 #6

Under the Banner of Heaven Bristlecone Jan 2025 #8

The Brits may be more knowledgeable about it, or about the general behavior of the Mormons in that place and time t soldierant Jan 2025 #9

Thanks! It's been popping up in my feed, but didn't know what it was about. Will watch it. LeftInTX Jan 2025 #11

Dark and violent retelling of this tragic event. La Coliniere Jan 2025 #12