Innocent Blood : Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
, by Bigler, David L.
- ISBN: 9780870623622 | 0870623621
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/31/2008
Sources documenting a frontier atrocity and its cover-up
| Illustrations | p. 13 |
| Maps | p. 14 |
| Preface | p. 15 |
| Editorial Procedures | p. 19 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 21 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger": The Arkansas Families | p. 31 |
| Seeming to Exult in Their Crimes | |
| Why All This Concealment? | |
| One Company in Family Groups: The 1860 Arkansas Depositions | |
| "Travelin' Through This World Below": The Mormon Reformation | p. 57 |
| The Angel of Vengeance Shall Be with Thee | |
| Let Your Blood Be Shed | |
| To Have Their Blood Spilt upon the Ground | |
| Let Their Names Be Written Down | |
| That the Gentile Bands May Be Broken | |
| The Cedar Stake Minutes: Come Forth to Slay the Wicked | |
| The Bitterest Agonies of Soul | |
| The Way to Love Mankind | |
| "Dark Clouds Are Going to Gather 'Round Me": The Murder of Parley Parker Pratt | p. 75 |
| Fatal Curiosity | |
| McLean and His Friends Will Kill Me | |
| The Blood of This Man upon Her Soil | |
| The Blood of Innocence Cries for Vengeance | |
| "My Way'll Be Rough and Steep": The Emigrants Go South | p. 93 |
| Violently Killed and Murdered | |
| Keep Your Guns and Pistols in Good Order | |
| Those Who Persist in Selling Grain to the Gentiles | |
| A Man without Conscientious Scruple or Physical Fear | |
| The Redemption of Zion Draweth Nigh | |
| We Are American Citizens | |
| John Hawley Remembers the Fancher Party | |
| A Strange Atmosphere | |
| Tell Them Our Enemies Are Their Enemies | |
| The Indians Will Use Them Up | |
| I Propose That We Have Some Danites | |
| The Lamanites Will Be Prepared to Fill Their Mission | |
| I Gave Them All the Cattle | |
| The Battle Axe of the Lord | |
| To Wreak Their Vengeance | |
| Avenge the Blood of the Prophets | |
| "I'm Only Going over Jordan": First Reports of the Emigrant Massacre | p. 129 |
| The Test That Was Near at Hand | |
| They Killed an Ox & Poisened It | |
| Mormons, and Not Indians, Had Killed the Americans | |
| Shameful Treatment | |
| They Poisoned Beef | |
| The Murder of an Entire Train of Emigrants | |
| The Complicity of the Mormon Leaders | |
| Blood Was in Their Path | |
| The Blood of the Americans | |
| "Only Goin' over Home": Not One Left to Tell the Story | p. 165 |
| The Water Was Also Poisoned | |
| Then They Got So Mad | |
| The Mormons Cheated Their Savage Allies | |
| The Emigrants Poisoned the Water | |
| Nothing Covered That Shall Not Be Revealed | |
| The Blood of My Constituents | |
| Let Their Bodies Ever Remain Suspended | |
| Inhuman Wretches | |
| "The Santa Clara Expedition": The Army Cracks the Case | p. 199 |
| Unable to Obtain Any Clew | |
| It Was Done by White Men | |
| Enquire into the Depredations | |
| Pierced with Bullet Holes | |
| A Great and Fearful Crime | |
| Skulls Laying Grinning at You | |
| The Arrest of Brigham Young | |
| The Governor of the Territory Alone | |
| Crimes Were Committed by Orders of Council | |
| Crucifying to My Feelings | |
| Mormons Painted and Disguised | |
| "Survivors of Sebastopol": The Children | p. 239 |
| Washing the Paint from His Face | |
| These Are All That Remain | |
| I Have Ordered Spring Wagons | |
| An Expensive and Round About Method | |
| The Best Citizens of That County | |
| A Natural Genius | |
| "A Dose of Rope": Fire from Within and More Obstruction | p. 255 |
| Defaced by Impious Hands | |
| Every Thing Is Not Told Yet | |
| I Was in That Horrid "Mountain Meadows Affair" | |
| Pardon My Presumption | |
| The Death of Their Friends by Poison | |
| The Argus Letters: Not Enough of Blood | |
| Mowing Them Down as If So Many Black Birds | |
| "The Bar of Justice": The Trials of John D. Lee | p. 295 |
| I Did Not Stop to Count the Dead | |
| The Time Has Come | |
| The First Trial of John D. Lee: A Full Exposure of the Murderous Conspiracy | |
| Craven Cowards and Obedient Serfs | |
| Giving a Few Thousand Dollars | |
| The Second Trial of John D. Lee: I Did Speak of It | |
| Only by a Floating Rumor | |
| Dame Was Discharged | |
| The Church Was on the Side of the Prosecution | |
| Sold Body and Breeches | |
| "The Old Man Never Flinched": Lee's Execution | p. 321 |
| Bartering My Life Away | |
| A Word from You without Signature | |
| The Command "Fire" Was Given | |
| I Am a True Believer | |
| Shoot the Balls through My Heart | |
| Lee's "Last Confession": The Howard Version | |
| A Lucrative Practice among the Saints | |
| I Never Knew the Real Facts | |
| The Exposer of the Massacre Murdered | |
| "Not an Accessory before of after the Fact": The Defense of Brigham Young | p. 365 |
| The Indians Will Do ... as They Please | |
| Destroyed by the Indians | |
| He Was Not a Man of Blood | |
| Not Mormon Liars Enough in the World | |
| Ride for Dear Life | |
| He Cried Like a Child | |
| The Horde of Infuriated Savages | |
| "The Sheerest Nonsense": Damning the Dead and Inventing the Missouri Wildcats | p. 391 |
| They Cursed and Threatened the People | |
| Cedar City Remembers: Profaning and Threatening | |
| Brandished His Pistol in Her Face | |
| An Exceedingly Fine Company of Emigrants: The Legend of the Missouri Wildcats Appears | |
| Called Themselves the Missouri Wild Cats | |
| Fight or Pull Up Stakes | |
| "These Painted Blood-Thirsty Indians": Participant Accounts | p. 405 |
| Destroy the Train | |
| Like a Lot of Infuriated Wolves | |
| I Have Been Misunderstood | |
| They Held Two of Us as Hostages | |
| The Butchery of the Unarmed and Helpless | |
| John Higbee Gave the Order | |
| Refused to Discharge His Weapon | |
| "You Don't Forget the Horror": The Survivors Remember | p. 425 |
| Then Cut Their Throats with Knives | |
| The Hero of Her Dreams | |
| "The Shadow of Treachery and Death": The Legacy of Mountain Meadows | p. 441 |
| Lest We Forget | |
| The So-Called Missouri Wildcats | |
| Brigham Knew the Whole Ghastly Story | |
| Blaming the Indians: It Is All One Lie | |
| We're Going to Get Blamed for It | |
| A Feather Lying Down | |
| Afterword | p. 461 |
| Mountain Meadows Massacre Timeline | p. 475 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 479 |
| Index | p. 493 |
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