Product Description

Professor Stanley Hirshon's New York Times review said, "Massacre at Mountain Meadows must rank as one of the half dozen boldest and most important books ever written on the Mormons. As an eloquent, moving document, it stands virtually alone...As a study of human motives and man's brutality, in the name of God, to other men, it is frightening."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #386782 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-14
• Released on: 2000-06-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 335 pages

Review
"...excellently researched and excellently written history...William Wise presents convincing evidence..." -- Boston

"Must rank as one of the half dozen boldest and most important books ever written on the Mormons..." -- Professor Stanley Hirshon, New York Times

About the Author
William Wise is the author of Killer Smog, one of the earliest books on the world's air pollution crisis and problems leading to global warming. He is also the author of many books for young people.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read
I was not even aware of this event until seeing it on the History Channel. When I saw this book at Amazon.com I ordered it. Very, very interesting book. Full of factual evidence but not too dry. It held my interest for the entire book.

I Should Have Know Better
A publisher will usually print the most glowing and/or most prestigious reviews of a book on the outside back jacket. The fact that those willing to be quoted in review of this book should have led me to look elsewhere for a beter account of this terrible event.

The emotive loading of descriptions of "stares" and "looks" by Mormons as these poor souls made their way from Salt Lake City to Mountain Meadows is but one example of poor hyperbole (with no adult survivors, you have to wonder where these, and other, descriptions came from).

Did the LDS members participate in these murders ? Absolutely. Did the LDS Church do anything to prevent the event or to investigate it afterwards ? Certainly not. Did the LDS Church order these murders ? The consensus of mainstream historians is probably not but you wouldn't know that by reading this book.

This book is more about the author's concerns with the LDS Church and less about the actual murders at Mountain Meadows. The LDS have much to be ashamed for relating to the murders without having someone "piling on".

I would suggest Juanita Brooks' book on this subject for a better read.

False
I thought that the book was rather stupid and based on false informatio