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Response to claims made in "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"



A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, a work by author: Will Bagley

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The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:

Author says that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it."

FAIR's Response

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  • Thomas G. Alexander, Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995), 132.  [ATTENTION!]

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378

The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:

The massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings.

FAIR's Response

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  •  [ATTENTION!]

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379

The author(s) of Check link or content make(s) the following claim:

 Author's quote: Early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance created the society that made the massacre possible if not inevitable....

FAIR's Response

  •  Prejudicial or loaded language

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  •  [ATTENTION!]

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