[Elsie]

I would not cut off his head and parade it around the neighborhood ...

 

The gruesome be headings of some 40 Ute corpses in 1850, heads stacked in boxes,

and hung by their long hair from the eves of buildings at Fort Utah,

 has long been ignored, “You didn’t see the Indians beheading the Mormons.”

 

-- Historian Robert Carter

[PapaBear3625]

The gruesome be headings of some 40 Ute corpses in 1850, heads stacked in boxes, and hung by their long hair from the eves of buildings at Fort Utah, has long been ignored, “You didn’t see the Indians beheading the Mormons.”

I said I wouldn't cut off somebody's head if he slapped me. Considering the back-and-forth between settlers and Indians, if it was a case of dealing with people who had massacred family and friends, perhaps I WOULD put their heads on display.

This stuff wasn't limited to the Mormons. And it went back all the way to the early settlements. Putting heads on display was a tradition of Western people going back thousands of years.

Seriously, you're grasping at straws here.