On his deathbed, Nephi Johnson muttered over and over, “Blood, blood, blood.” As a young man, Johnson had been among dozens of Latter-day Saints who executed nearly 100 members of two emigrant ...

What was Brigham Young’s involvement, if any, in the massacre, and what did he know about it? Brown • Did he order the massacre? No. It’s incontrovertible that he did not order the massacre.

Lee's first trial, but he agreed to the following deposition for Lee's second trial, in which Lee was found guilty of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.] Questions to be propounded to Brigham Young on ...

The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had first arrived in the Salt Lake area ...

Netflix is releasing a new six-episode series of fictionalized history on Thursday morning that includes Brigham Young and uses the Mountain Meadows Massacre as what the streamer calls “the ...

He even implied that the massacre was the work of Brigham Young himself. In March 1877, two decades after the crime, he was executed by firing squad on the site where the massacre took place.

Just before breakfast, according to an account by historian Will Bagley in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, a child among the emigrants fell, struck by a ...

Before returning home, the killers pledged to stand by one another and promised to maintain that the massacre had been the work of Paiute Indians. “This was the advice of Brigham Young too ...