American Massacre: The Tragedy at
Mountain Meadows, September 1857
by Sally Denton
A New Look At One Of America's Bloodiest Massacres
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold
was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17
children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field
called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate
debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for
the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally Denton makes a fiercely
convincing argument that they were.
The author–herself of Mormon descent–first traces the extraordinary
emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century
intrigues and tensions between their leaders and the U.S. government,

fueled by the Mormons’ zealotry and exclusionary practices. We see how
by 1857 they were unique as a religious group in ruling an entire American
territory, Utah, and commanding their own exclusive government and
army.
Denton makes clear that in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, the
church began placing the blame on a discredited Mormon, John D. Lee,
and on various Native Americans. She cites contemporaneous records and
newly discovered documents to support her argument that, in fact, the
Mormon leader, Brigham Young, bore significant responsibility–that Young,
impelled by the church’s financial crises, facing increasingly intense
scrutiny and condemnation by the federal government, incited the crime by
both word and deed.
Finally, Denton explains how the rapidly expanding and enormously rich
Mormon church of today still struggles to absolve itself of responsibility for
what may well be an act of religious fanaticism unparalleled in the annals
of American history. American Massacre is totally absorbing in its narrative
as it brings to life a tragic moment in our history.
Personal Review: American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain
Meadows, September 1857 by Sally Denton
Sally Denton does a superb job at adding to the body of knowledge
surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre which remains the largest
single slaughter, by gunfire, of innocent people in America today - even
though one hundred and fifty years have transpired since it occurred.
Based upon her extensive research, which includes sources not previously
uncovered (no pun intended) including the recent infamous exposure of
human remains dredged up by a backhoe in 1999. This occurred while the
mormons (who, pathetically, still own the land) were preparing to rebuild a
cairn that fallen into a horrible state of disrepair. As Denton reports, the
original cairn had been built by the United States Army, shortly after the
massacre only to be desecrated by none other than Brigham Young who,
in responding to the inscription on the wooden cross raised upon the
monument which said, "Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord,"
arrogantly proclaimed that, "Vengeance is mine, and I have taken a little."
Immediately preceding Young's use of the secret "Danite signal," members
of his vile death squad (the Danites) tore the memorial down. Since then,
"memorials" on the site had come and gone.
Ironically, the cult brought in Shane Baker, an archeologist from Brigham
Young University (where else?), to "examine" the site of the bloodbath
prior to rebuilding the cairn "just in case" - of course, the cult wouldn't want
to admit that they really had butchered so many innocent people and
wouldn't begin work unless they were assured that nothing damning would

be uncovered. Almost immediately after Baker stupidly proclaimed to the
media that "the archaeological evidence (of the massacre) was 100
percent negative" the backhoe exposed the bones of the the cult's victims.
Needless to say, the cult's attempt to further hide their involvement was
immediately exposed and rightfully caused them another PR scandal.
According to Utah State law, investigations are required whenever human
remains were uncovered. As a result, experts (real ones, not the cult's
shills from BYU) were brought in who quickly determined that large
numbers of men, women, and CHILDREN had been slaughtered. The
forensic evidence also revealed that the men had been shot, point blank, in
the head, while most of the women and CHILDREN were bludgeoned to
death. Furthermore, these investigations also revealed that the butchery
was entirely attributed to white men rather than by the Paiute Indians.
That, of course, is in direct conflict with the cult's long-standing contention
that "the Indians did it." The cult's lame attempt to blame on "the Indians" is
further exposed as a complete fraud is further supported by Ms. Denton's
considerable research of records available from the National Archives,
military sources, court records, etc., etc.
Not surprisingly, after the bones were exposed, the cult quickly moved in to
hide their complicity with this atrocity - they had another one of their
members, former Governor Mike Leavitt (who also just happens to be a
descendant of Mormon polygamists as well as the direct descendent of
Dudley Leavitt - one of the participants in the massacre), intentionally side-
stepped state law and had the remains prematurely reinterred in order to
prevent the already damning investigation from being completed. How
convenient. Isn't it comforting to know that Leavitt is now serving as the
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services?
Perhaps the most vile recent act concerning the cult's continual refusal to
accept responsibility for their evil is the statement of Satan's child, Gordon
B. Hinckley at "dedication" of the new Mountain Meadows monument just a
month after the bones were accidently uncovered. Hinckley had that
audacity to state, "That which we have done here must never be construed
as an acknowledgment of the part of the church of any complicity in the
occurrences of that fateful day." From Brigham Young's involvement in
stirring up the cesspool of hatred that lead to the loss of so many innocent
lies to the mad ramblings of the cult's current false prophet, Gordon B.
Hinckley, it's apparent that the evil will only continue. It's a good thing that
books like "American Massacre" are published to expose the truth.
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