“Mountain Meadows Redux,” Daily Herald, August 16, 2008
“The collaboration by Walker, Turley and Leonard is unique in the breadth of the research that supports it. . . . Jan Shipps, professor emeritus of religious studies and history at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a widely respected authority on...“Massacre at Mountain Meadows,” Part I, Utah NOW, KUED, August 15, 2008
“Since the 1857 slaughter of more than 120 men, women and children at Mountain Meadows, Utah, questions about why a group of Mormon settlers killed an unarmed emigrant party and the influence of Brigham Young have swirled around the incident.” Read more.Book Signing, Benchmark Books, August 12, 2008
Benchmark Books, 3269 S. Main St., Suite 250, Salt Lake City, 5:30-7:30 p.m., August 12, 2008.“Mountain Meadows Massacre Book to Be Released with Input from LDS Church Historians,” ABC, August 8, 2008
“A telling sign as to how much interest there is in this book is that hasn’t even had its official release yet and the first printing is already sold out…” Read more.
“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