Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Norman, OK: University of Oaklahoma Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 493 pp. Quarto [26 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth and paper over boards. Title stamped in metallic red ink on backstrip and bottom right corner of front board. Maroon endpapers. From the publisher: "The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. Based on extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of over 120 men, women, and children, and drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre by the Mormon Church and others.