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Sep 11, 1857:
Mormons and Paiutes murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows
On this day in 1857, Mormon guerillas, stoked by religious zeal
and a deep resentment of decades of public abuse and federal
interference, murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
Although historical accounts differ, the conflict with the wagon
train of emigrants from Missouri and Arkansas apparently began
when the Mormons refused to sell the train any supplies. Some of
the emigrants then began to commit minor depredations against
Mormon fields, abuse the local Paiute Indians, and taunt the
Mormons with reminders of how the Missourians had attacked and
chased them out of that state during the 1830s. Angered by the
emigrants' abuse and fired by a zealous passion against the
growing tide of invading gentiles, a group of Mormons guerillas
from around Cedar City decided to take revenge. Cooperating with
a group of Paiute Indians who had already attacked the train on
their own initiative, the Mormon guerillas initially pretended to
be protectors. The guerillas persuaded the emigrants that they
had convinced the Paitues to let them go if they would surrender
their arms and allow the Mormons to escort the wagon train
through the territory. But as the train again moved forward under
the Mormon escort, a guerilla leader gave a pre-arranged signal.
The Mormons opened fire on the unarmed male emigrants, while the
Paiutes reportedly murdered the women. Later accounts suggested
that some Mormons had only fired in the air while others killed
as few of the emigrants as they could. But when the shooting
stopped in Mountain Meadows, 120 men and women were dead. Only 18
small children were spared.
As a direct result of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the U.S.
government demanded a new settlement from Brigham Young. In 1858,
the Mormons agreed to accept a continued presence of federal
troops and a Gentile governor for Utah Territory. No further
significant Mormon-Gentile violence occurred, and the Latter Day
Saints were thereafter largely left to govern themselves. But the
era of complete Mormon domination of Utah ended as a result of
the tragedy that day in Mountain Meadows.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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