At least that's what the Fancher bunch was TOLD!
"We'll protect your back as you pass thru."
Mormon definition of words was different even back then!
“We’ll protect your back as you pass thru.”
[Mormon definition of words was different even back then!]
Here is a must read for everybody, the most evenhanded account I’ve seen from a Mormon.
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/ERobinson.html