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	Mountain Meadows Massacre @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mountain Meadows massacre occurred on Friday, September 11, 1857 in Mountain Meadows, Utah, several miles south of Enterprise in Washington County along the portion of the Old Spanish Trail that became the overland wagon road to California.
		In the case of Mountain Meadows, we have a record irrevocably colored by dubious folklore and corrupted by perjury, false memory, and the destruction of key documents.
		The chief cause of the massacre was a desire on the part of the Mormons to come into possession of the new wagons, fine horses and all the abundant farming implements which the emigrants had; all valued at about $300,000...
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre (3525 words)

	Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah
		Mountain Meadows was the scene of one of the most infamous episodes in the West, the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
		The Lytle, Ence, Burgess, Cottam, and Snow families are some of the early settlers of the "Meadows" that still have family in the area.
		Mountain Meadows looks different than it did at the time of the 1857 massacre, a flood cut great washes throughout the valley a few years after the incident.
	www.lofthouse.com /USA/Utah/washington/mtmeadow.html (403 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		The shape of the meadows area resembles an elongated diamond, approximately six miles long and one and one-half miles wide; it is divided into northern and southern halves by a low bald ridge, which John C. Fémont identified as the south rim of the Great Basin and measured at 5,280 feet above sea level.
		At that time, the Meadows were covered with a variety of grasses fed by numerous springs of clear water, and the area was considered by Parley P. Pratt to be one of the most delightful places on the entire route.
		Eighteen months after the massacre, prompted by relatives in Arkansas demanding an investigation, an army payroll escort passed through the area and reinterred the remains of the victims that could be found and erected stone cairns over the mass graves--at least two at the massacre site and one at the siege site.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/m/MOUNTAINMEADOW.html (1557 words)

	Mountain Meadows Massacre -- Reburying the Dead
		Mountain Meadows massacre analysis ends with an accusation (SL Tribune, June 22, 2003) - "Brigham Young, as portrayed in Sally Denton's American Massacre, is a murderer and liar and commits treason.
		The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks, 1991
		The Mountain Meadows Association was organized in 1989 as a joint effort by the descendants of both sides of this tragedy.
	www.greaterthings.com /Topical/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre (2485 words)

	Mountain Meadow Massacre
		The massacre occurred between September 7 and 11, 1857, when a group of Mormon settlers in southern Utah joined with nearby Indians in killing all but some of the youngest members of a group of non-Mormon emigrants en route to California.
		As the Baker-Fancher party traveled from Salt Lake City to the Mountain Meadows, tensions developed between some of the emigrants, on the one hand, and Mormon settlers and their Native American allies, on the other.
		One speaker at the marker dedication was Judge Roger V. Logan, Jr., of Harrison, Arkansas, a man related to twenty-one of the massacre victims listed on the marker, as well as to five of the children who survived.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/response/history/Mountain_Meadows_EOM.htm (1091 words)

	Pioneers and Cowboys
		The route- which headed west from Fort Bridger through the Wasatch Mountains, around the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, across the Salt Desert and on to the Humboldt River-was untested by wagons.
		Of the eighty-two, forty-seven survived the starvation and cannibalism to be rescued by parties coming east from Sutter's Fort in February and March, 1847.
		However the trail they cut through the Wasatch Mountains was the main road into Utah for a decade.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/donnerparty.html (574 words)

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