I just finished rereading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, “A Study In Scarlet”. It was forty years since I first read Sherlock Holmes. It mentions the Mormon Avenging Angels. Conan Doyle clearly didn’t like them.
On the other hand Conan Doyle tho a great writer would sometimes make up stuff.
He later changed his mind and actually once spoke in the mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Not taking sides here; just pointing this out.
The mormons were also the villains in Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage, I believe.
I, also recently finished ACD’s “A Study In Scarlet”. I’m guessing he was more than meticulous in his research. (Well, except for the “brain fever” fad that authors of his era believed). I tend to think his research findings in this particular subject were accurate. I’ve known some very nice mormons, but they’re all deranged when it comes to their beliefs.
Dang!
He could have been a Living Prophet®!
It's true that Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story cast the mormons as the villains. However, years later he changed his mind, saying he had been misinformed, and even spoke once at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
This is not an apologia for mormonism, merely a historical fact.