Mormon Massacre

A new book called Massacre at Mountain Meadows draws on documents previously unavailable to scholars to put together what happened September 11, 1857. On that day, 120 men women and children on a wagon train bound for California were killed. The Mormon church has always played down its role, first blaming Indians and then church member John D Lee. Some pointed fingers at church president Brigham Young for ordering the massacre. But the three authors, each of whom are former or current employees of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, say the southern Utah church leaders were to blame but not Young.