Review: Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture, by Janiece Johnson; Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath, by Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture, by Janiece Johnson; Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath, by Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture. By Janiece Johnson. University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 234 pages. $99.00 hardcover; $29.95 softcover; ebook available.Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath. By Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown. Oxford University Press, 2023. 520 pages. $34.95 hardcover; ebook available. Matthew Bowman Matthew Bowman Claremont Graduate University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.137 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Matthew Bowman; Review: Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture, by Janiece Johnson; Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath, by Richard E. Turley and Barbara Jones Brown. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 137–139. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.137 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search In September 1857 members of the territorial militia in several southern Utah communities banded together under the direction of their local leadership and slaughtered roughly 120 members of a wagon train passing through the Utah territory on the way to California. All the perpetrators were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their leaders were officers in the militia and local ecclesiastical officials. Indeed, many, including the massacre’s key planners Isaac Haight and William Dame, were both at the same time. The massacre occurred on a peaceful meadow cut by a small creek between low wooded hills approximately fifty miles south of Cedar City, Utah and three hundred south of Salt Lake City. It remains quite rural, but at the time the site was a well-known resting point for wagon trains because of its water and lush grasses. It was called Mountain Meadows. Despite the meadow’s isolation,... You do not currently have access to this content.