“On 11 September 1857 a group of Mormon militia men massacred 120 men, women, and children at Mountain Meadows on the wagon route to California through southern Utah. . . . Massacre at Mountain Meadows tells of the grim outcome without flinching and without excuse.”
“A vivid, gripping narrative of one of the most notorious mass murders in all American history, and a model for how historians should do their work. This account of a long-controversial horror is scrupulously researched, enriched with contemporary illustrations, and informed by the lessons of more recent atrocities.”
— Daniel Walker Howe , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848