Good luck with getting a straight answer about the number actually killed by the Missouri mobs.
Went thru the Salt Lake visitor center several years back, and distinctly remember it giving the impression of huge numbers of murdered Mormons.
So on a discussion thread similar to this one I asked the Mormon participants for a documented list of those killed: name, date, location, particulars, etc. It would seem reasonable to expect that such a list would be widely available.
Could not find one anywhere, only hyperbolic statements about massive numbers of murders.
One of the reasons this interested me is that AFAIK the single largest number of Mormons killed was at Haun’s Mill in MO. I grew up not far away. 17 Mormons died there, and they (mostly) died in combat with the mobsters, not slaughtered in cold blood. I have seen no evidence at all that any women, or with one exception children, were intentionally killed there.
I have never seen anything to document that more people weren’t murdered by the Mormons at Mountain Meadows than Mormons were killed in all the Mormon/Gentile conflicts in the midwest.
Given the peculiarly atrocious circumstances of the MMM it seems the Mormons came out way ahead in the atrocity contest.
There are of course many rumors from the time of Mormons murdering Gentiles, but I pay not attention to those if they can’t be documented.
Your observations match mine. Hawn Mill had 17 deaths and occurred shortly after the mormon assault on gov't forces at Crooked River. Further, historians indicate that though Hawn mill occured after the Boggs order, there was not enough time for it to have gotten to militias - therefore, Hawn mill was independent of it. Needless to say passions were inflamed on both sides - both behaved badly.
RLDS remained there and were not killed off. However, Young's poorly planned hand cart fiasco killed more mormons than Bogg's order.
They (mormons) were also driven from Kirkland because of Smith's banking fiasco.
Nauvoo was due to smith's treason and abuse of power.
You point out MMM. That was the most famous, as other wagon trains were also attacked. Doesn't include massacres of indian tribes by the Young forces.
Persecution complex to mask the real history.
DUH!
Gotta keep the meme alive; doncha know!
Ya have a hard time playing the victim card if'fn ya ain't got many victims!