Authors of "Vengeance Is Mine" discuss the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath, including what Brigham Young knew or did about the atrocity.

The first book, “Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath” (Oxford, May 30), co-written by historians Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown, has been years in the ...

In spring 1859, more than 18 months after the massacre, U.S. Army Capt. Reuben Campbell and his troops camped at Mountain Meadows, where he ordered surgeon Charles Brewer and a detachment of ...

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre In September 1857, the militiamen and their Paiute helpers launched an attack on the Baker-Fancher party. The emigrants circled their wagons during a four-day siege.

B ullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah ...

Mountain Meadows Massacre In 1857 an Arkansas wagon train on its way through Southern Utah was attacked by Mormon settlers. Over a hundred people were murdered, with the exception of at least 17 ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in American Primeval, was a heinous attack orchestrated by the Mormon militia group that led to the deaths of 120 emigrants traveling west through the Utah ...

In the wake of the many previous accounts of the massacre itself — prominent among them Juanita Brooks' seminal "Mountain Meadows Massacre" in 1950, Will Bagley's "Blood of the Prophets" in 2004 ...

• In a follow-up volume, “Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath,” Turley teams up with Barbara Jones Brown to examine how church leaders in southern Utah tried ...

Scott Fancher, general counsel for the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, came to the area for the first time more than 50 years ago when there were no markers or indicators of two more grave ...

The composers of the all-new Broadway-bound musical, The Way Way West, will perform the songs from this exciting original musical score at Myron’s at The Smith Center on June 26.