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The first detailed and comprehensive work using modern historical methods was The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1950 by Juanita Brooks, a Mormon scholar who lived near the area in southern Utah. Brooks found no evidence of direct involvement by Brigham Young, but charged him with obstructing the investigation and provoking the attack through his ...
Many Mormons held the people of Arkansas responsible. [27] In 1857, Mormon leaders taught that the Second Coming of Jesus was imminent, [28] and that God would soon exact punishment against the United States for persecuting Mormons and martyring "the prophets" Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, David W. Patten, and Parley P. Pratt. [29]
Some Mormons in southern Utah taught that the invasion was the beginning of the Millennium, [7] and the prevailing understanding there was that the U.S. Army intended to wipe out the Mormons as a people. [8] In preparation for a seven-year siege predicted by Brigham Young, Mormon leaders began accelerating an existing program for stockpiling ...
A few days after the massacre, September 29, 1857, John D. Lee briefed Brigham Young on the massacre. According to Lee, more than one hundred and fifty "mob members" of Missouri and Illinois, with many cattle and horses, damned the Saints leaders, and poisoned not only a beef given to the Native Americans, but also a spring which killed both Saints and Native Americans.
Found beaten and shot to death in a car in a parking lot 66 December 15, 1979 North Charleston, South Carolina: Ruth Teuscher (missionary) LDS Church Found beaten and shot to death in a car in a parking lot 65 February 1987 Lisbon, Portugal: Roger Hunt (missionary) LDS Church Shot and killed by a security guard who thought he had stolen a car 19
4+ Timpanogos people Attack on an encampment of Timpanogos families after they took some Mormon cattle [34] 1850 Provo, Utah: Provo River massacre: 40–100 Timpanogos people, 1 Mormon person Mormon settlers laid siege to an encampment of Timpanogos families on the Provo River, and executed men who surrendered. [35] 1851 Skull Valley, Utah
John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island in an attempt to introduce the tribe to Christianity. [3] [4]
William Adams "Wild Bill" Hickman (April 16, 1815 – August 21, 1883) was an American frontiersman. He also served as a representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature and is most known for writing a public confession to committing several murders under orders from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints prophet Brigham Young.