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Sto caricando le informazioni... Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2008)di Ronald W. Walker, Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Jr. Turley
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Have now read this and Juanita Brooks book as well. Surprisingly, this is fairly balanced in its approach. But then, the horse was outta the barn for some years, unlike for Brooks' book. Finished 25.09.19. ( ) Although written by professional historians trying to be very careful about sources and piecing together a cloudy story, the book was very readable. (This may be due to Walker, who I've heard is one of the best writers in Mormon history.) I felt like it did a fair job, not trying to vilify or defend anyone. The authors concluded that Brigham Young didn't order the Mormons to massacre the victims, but he shared responsibility, along with George A. Smith, for creating a climate of paranoia and aggression during the build-up to the Utah War. The locals and regional church/government leaders got caught up in a bad plan that spiraled out of control, and they attempted to contain it by brutal means. Besides taking a fresh approach to the corpus of source material that has been amassed over the years, the authors also compared this tragedy with the culture of frontier violence and vigilantism. I hope they're still planning on Volume 2, to discuss the cover up by church headquarters, national attention, and the federal investigations. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived an emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)979.2History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. UtahClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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