Review of Massacre at Mountain Meadows, in Religious Studies Review, September 2010
“The authors have compiled a staggering amount of research, some of which has never been seen before, and present a more thorough and detailed history of Mountain Meadows than has ever been written. . . . This meticulously researched book is an important...Review of Massacre at Mountain Meadows, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, October 2009
“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...Review of Massacre at Mountain Meadows, in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, December 2009
“Massacre at Mountain Meadows deserves to be the standard account of the massacre for both LDS and non-LDS researchers and readers, updating Juanita Brooks’s fine but now outdated The Mountain Meadows Massacre . . . and surpassing other recent treatments . . . Walker,...Review of Massacre at Mountain Meadows, in Overland Journal, Winter 2009
“A comprehensive analysis that places the complex event in the midst of such broader historical constructs as the persistence of violence in antebellum America, the liabilities of the militia tradition, and the nature of mass killings in general. . . . The narrative...
“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