Butch Cassidy, a Mormon?

LDSLiving.com ^ | May 23, 2013 | KELSEY BERTEAUX

[Elsie]

Four of the nine Utah Territorial militiamen of the Tenth Regiment "Iron Brigade" who were indicted in 1874 for murder or conspiracy (Not shown: William H. Dame • William C. Stewart • Ellott Willden • Samuel Jukes • George Adair, Jr.)
Isaac C. Haight—Battalion Commander—died 1886 Arizona	Maj. John H. Higbee, said to have shouted the command to begin the killings. He claimed that he reluctantly participated in the massacre and only to bury the dead who he thought were victims of an "Indian attack."	Maj. John D. Lee, constable, judge, and Indian Agent. Having conspired in advance with his immediate commander, Isaac C. Haight, Lee led the initial assault, and falsely offered emigrants safe passage prior to their mile-long march to the field where they were ultimately massacred. He was the only participant convicted.	Philip Klingensmith, a Bishop in the church and a private in the militia. He participated in the killings, and later turned state's evidence against his fellows, after leaving the church.

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Poor John!!!

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"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

[Finny]

Wow -- Zane Gray and A Conan Doyle were not only excellent writers, they were HONEST writers in that though what they wrote was fictional in the details, it was accurate in the general historic sense, and they were contemporaries of all the violent ugly crap that the Mormon Church pushed at the time.

I have many friends who are Mormons. While I love them individually ... as I've gotten older, I've come to loathe their church.

[Elsie]

Like the KJV, which is both given away by Mormonism and is also insinuated to be be improperly translated, the above feline would make a good Spokesanimal for LDS, Inc.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 6/12/2013. Thanks Colofornian.

Butch wrote some unknown number of letters to people back in the states. Of those which are known to have survived, not even one postdates the shootout in Bolivia on November 7, 1908. That's not a coincidence. He had a lookalike brother who (like the rest of the family) amounted to nothing, who in later years visited old friends he and "Butch" had had in common in their youth, and passed himself off as Butch.

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