On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:47:35 -0800, "C J Campbell"
wrote:

You're. I want reparations for the perpetuation of this slander, too.

The actual history of the Mountain Meadows massacre is that a bunch of
Missourians headed to the California gold fields tried to cross southern
Utah in the middle of a drought. Brigham Young had tried to persuade them to
take the safer northern route but they were in a hurry (odd behavior for a
man supposed to be trying to kill them, but conspiracy theorists were never
known for their logic). The Missourians, who bragged about their treatment
of the 'Mormons' in Missouri, quickly ran out of supplies and resorted to
stealing what they needed from local settlers and Indians, most of whom were
on the point of starvation themselves. They killed several Indians in cold
blood and stole their horses, enraging the local Utes and Paiutes. All the
while they bragged about their murders and how they were going to rape
women, etc.

The band was finally attacked by Indians who surrounded the wagon train.
Local settlers, not all of them Mormons, negotiated a cease-fire and then
treacherously slaughtered all the adult members of the group, despite pleas
from Church leaders, including Brigham Young, to let them go. While the
behavior of the local settlers was out and out murder, you have to wonder
just how much any group that was as isolated, persecuted, and hounded as
they were by these people is supposed to take. The perpetrators of the
massacre were tried and convicted and some of them were hanged, which is far
more justice than the mobbers in Missouri and Illinois ever got.

Hmmm, your version is distinctly at odds with this one found at
http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/meadows3.htm

Brigham Young is not even mentioned as being present.

Corky Scott