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Problems With Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources, Richard E. Turley Jr.
Problems With Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources, Richard E. Turley Jr.
BYU Studies Quarterly
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints houses a large collection of information regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre in its Church History Department. However, none of the sources are wholly reliable and must be analyzed carefully in order to piece together the complicated events of the massacre. Turley explains what possible errors exist in Major James Henry Carleton's report, the John D. Lee trial transcripts, and John D. Lee's autobiography, Mormonism Unveiled. Against most evidence, Carleton recorded that the wagon train massacred was the Perkins train, a fact that has been repeated without much scrutiny in other works …
Why Study The Past? The Quest For The Historical Church (Book Review), Jonathan Warner
Why Study The Past? The Quest For The Historical Church (Book Review), Jonathan Warner
Pro Rege
Reviewed Title: Williams, Rowan. Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishers, 2005. 129 pp. ISBN 0-8028-2990-2.