***With the discovery of the clothes, all LDS claims of non-participation in the Mountain Meadows Massacre were rendered transparent falsehoods.
Had the officers not restrained their troops, the murders would have been avenged at that moment.***
This is told by an eye witness “Indian” John Nelson in his book, Life Among the American Indians: Fifty Years on the Trail : a True Story of Western Life”
http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeamongameric00oregoog/lifeamongameric00oregoog_djvu.txt
Thank you very much for the link to the John Nelson “Life” book. Very interesting. I can’t stop reading it. The tragedy of the “wealthy emigrants” from California that met the selfish Mormons (1891: 164) is very sad.