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In nov 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were wiped out in lonely Pile Meadows in southern Utah; only 18 small children were spared. The men on the floor after the bloody deed required an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The market leaders of the Mormon chapel also counseled silence. The first article, soon after the massacre, detailed it as an Indian onslaught of which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named. With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the backdrop of conflict, analyzed the emotional local climate at the time, pointed the social and armed service business in Utah, and exposed the pushes which culminated in the fantastic tragedy at Pile Meadows. The effect is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the individuals as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of conflict hysteria, whipped up by recitals of previous persecutions and the eyesight of an getting close to "army" coming to drive the Mormons off their homes.

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