“Authors Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard had unprecedented access to LDS Church archives in their telling of the titular 1857 tragedy in which 157 emigrants traveling to California were killed by local Mormons. With its understated prose, an essential purchase.” Library Journal, September 1, 2008. Read more here.
“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