Holy Murder The Story of Porter Rockwell
- Hardcover
- New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1934
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 313pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Frontispiece reproducing a photograph of Porter Rockwell by C.R Savage. Black and white illustrations. Covers cocked. Cloth at spine ends a bit frayed. Front hinge going. Previous owner's bookplate and ink stamp on front endpaper. Very occasional pencil markings to text. Six-Guns, 1223. Porter Rockwell was the head of the Danites. This book includes information on Rockwell's first murder in Utah, Hickman, the Gunnison Massacre, and much more.
"The biography of a servant is inseparably bound with that of his master, and the life story of Orrin Porter parallels those of Joseph Smith, Jr., ... and of Brigham Young...
"To those men Orrin Porter Rockwell dedicated forty seven years of his life. At their command he murdered, robbed, and terrorized; he burned and scourged; he perjured and he lied. He was, in deed and in fact, the Terror of the Plains, the field of his infamy extending from the Mississippi Valley to the deserts of Nevada. He is variously credited with from a dozen to a hundred murders, but not once, so far as the record shows, did he draw gun or dagger in self-defense." - the Authors.
"The biography of a servant is inseparably bound with that of his master, and the life story of Orrin Porter parallels those of Joseph Smith, Jr., ... and of Brigham Young...
"To those men Orrin Porter Rockwell dedicated forty seven years of his life. At their command he murdered, robbed, and terrorized; he burned and scourged; he perjured and he lied. He was, in deed and in fact, the Terror of the Plains, the field of his infamy extending from the Mississippi Valley to the deserts of Nevada. He is variously credited with from a dozen to a hundred murders, but not once, so far as the record shows, did he draw gun or dagger in self-defense." - the Authors.