..don’t forget to mention the Haun’s Mill massacre of 1838, the the Missouri militia 147 Mormon settlers including children.
Like I said before, it was violent times.
My great-grandmother’s future brother-in-law went on a wagon train to Salt Lake City in 1865 and as an old man many years later wrote or dictated his recollections of the trip and of Salt Lake City. He was not a Mormon but seemed to have a generally favorable attitude towards what he witnessed. He went to some of their meetings but didn’t tell anyone that he was from Missouri—”if I had told them I was from Missouri, my hide wouldn’t have been worth shucks.”