Here’s what I saw:
http://polizeros.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Mountain-Meadows-plaque-MM1.jpg
(No, I did not take that picture.)
If people today wonder why early Mormonism was so reviled, this is one clue. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
I see that the MORMON leadership STILL wants to drag ‘local indians’ into the killing...
"I am a true believer in the gospel of Jesus Christ, I do not believe everything that is now being taught and practiced by Brigham Young.
I do not care who hears it. It is my last word - it is so.
I believe he is leading the people astray, downward to destruction.
But I believe in the gospel that was taught in its purity by Joseph Smith, in former days.
I have my reasons for it.
"I studied to make this man's [Brigham Young] will my pleasure for thirty years.
See, now, what I have come to this day!
"I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner." (Lee enunciated this sentence with marked emphasis.)
Excerpted from --> http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leeexecution.html
You realize that two other wagon trains were also attacked?
The Shepherd Train and the Miltmore train. Both sustained loss of life. The attackers were “Indians” some with blond hair, beards, and spoke perfect English.
There is also a memorial stone in downtown Harrison, Arkansas. Fancher, who was murdered at MM, used to own a 200 acre farm about two miles south of me.
