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Video - The Oct. 26, 1853 Gunnison Massacre, Millard County, Utah - See the killing of US Army Captain John W Gunnison & seven more blamed on vengeful Pahvant tribesmen, as a dress rehearsal for the Sept. 11, 1857 slaughter of around 140 wagoneers at the Mountain Meadows by Mormons done up as Indians.

PDF - The Sept. 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre a Dark Day in Utah History, by Rodney Dalton - The attack then siege of a wagon train by the Nauvoo Legion of the Iron County Mormon Militia, culminating in the slaughter of all but seventeen children after their surrender.

Paiutes Deny Involvement - Brevet Major Carleton "the scene was too horrible and sickening for language to describe, human skeletons, disjointed bones, ghastly skulls and the hair of women were scattered in frightful profusion over a distance of two miles, the remains dismembered and flesh stripped from the bones by wolves, then only such bones were buried as lay scattered along nearest the road."

Samuel L Clemens aka Mark Twain, "Roughing It" Appendix B, The Mountain Meadows Massacre - "The persecutions which the Mormons suffered so long--and which they consider they still suffer in not being allowed to govern themselves-- they have endeavored and are still endeavoring to repay. The now almost forgotten "Mountain Meadows massacre" was their work.

It was very famous in its day. The whole United States rang with its horrors. A few items will refresh the reader's memory. A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. In that matter lay sufficient cause for hot retaliation by the Mormon chiefs.

Besides, these one hundred and forty-five or one hundred and fifty unsuspecting emigrants being in part from Arkansas, where a noted Mormon missionary had lately been killed, and in part from Missouri, a State remembered with execrations as a bitter persecutor of the saints when they were few and poor and friendless, here were substantial additional grounds for lack of love for these wayfarers.

And finally, this train was rich, very rich in cattle, horses, mules and other property--and how could the Mormons consistently keep up their coveted resemblance to the Israelitish tribes and not seize the "spoil" of an enemy when the Lord had so manifestly "delivered it into their hand?"