Mountain Meadows Massacre1857-09-07 Victims: 147 (130 / 17) Tools: Guns & Knives |
Mormon persecution lead to suspicion and paranoia, and after some animals (and people) were alleged poisoned, and during a time when a Democrat President was agitating the mormons with the U.S. military, they wiped out a Wagon train (the Baker–Fancher party). There's a lot of fuzziness on whether it was sanctioned by Mormon leadership, and whether the rumors about the Baker–Fancher party were true. | Cause: Utah Territorial Militia Motive: ↔️ Both [1] |
After 17 Mormon's had been killed in the Haun's Mill massacre (1838), and conflict in Nauvoo, Illinois (where Joseph Smith was killed by a mob), they had eventually fled and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. Where James Buchanan (D) sent one-third of the U.S. army to make sure they weren't "rebelling". The Mormon's were suspicious of outsiders, and during this time, some of them attacked and exterminated all the people in a Wagon train (the Baker–Fancher party). There's a lot of fuzziness on whether it was sanctioned by Mormon leadership, and whether it was retaliation for poisoning of cattle and people.
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- Wikipedia: Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Wikipedia: Haun's Mill massacre
- https://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/historians-craft/mormon-conflict-and-controversy-at-nauvoo-1839-1846/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War
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- ↑ Basically, it was a subset of persecuted Mormon separatists behaving badly, after a Democrat President made things worse.