Episode 14 | The Mountain Meadows Massacre | Part I: The Road to Murder
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Episode 14 | The Mountain Meadows Massacre | Part I: The Road to Murder
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In the late summer of 1857, a well-equipped wagon train of emigrants known as the Baker–Fancher party rolled into Utah Territory on their way to California... They were exhausted, hopeful, and unaware that they were arriving during one of the most dangerous moments in early Mormon-American history.
What followed would become one of the most shocking and disputed tragedies of the nineteenth century: the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
In Part I, The Road to Murder, we trace the rising tensions that set the stage long before a single shot was fired.
From early Latter Day Saint tragedies, pioneer identity and the U.S. government’s standoff with Brigham Young, that shaped the paranoia gripping frontier settlements...
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