Howard Berkes, “Mormon Historians Shed Light On Sept. 11, 1857,” National Public Radio, September 11, 2008
“Turley and fellow Mormon authors Ronald Walker and Glen Leonard spent more than five years collecting diaries, journals, reports and other documents from that period. They had unprecedented access to the archives of the LDS Church, which include documents that other...“Writing ‘Massacre at Mountain Meadows,'” Mormon Times, September 11, 2008
“In less than a month after its release, Oxford University Press is in its fourth printing of ‘Massacre at Mountain Meadows’ by Mormon authors Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard.” Read more here.“Massacre at Mountain Meadows Authors Hope Readers Ask Questions,” Mormon Times, September 10, 2008
“What if you had been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southern Utah in 1857? What if you had been asked to participate in what later would be called the Mountain Meadows Massacre? What would you have done? The three authors of a new...Massacre at Mountain Meadows Topic of Panel at Salt Lake City Public Library, September 5, 2008
“The American West Center at the University of Utah and its partners the Charles Redd Center for Western History at BYU, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center, the Tanner Center for Non-Violent Human Rights, and the Salt Lake City Public Library...Massacre at Mountain Meadows “An Essential Purchase” for Libraries
“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...
“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