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Authors of new Mountain Meadows Massacre book say tragedy has insights for current moment

Curtis Davis walks the grounds of the Mountain Meadows Massacre monument Saturday during the 150th Commemoration of the Carleton Reburial.

Curtis Davis walks the grounds of the Mountain Meadows Massacre monument Saturday during the 150th Commemoration of the Carleton Reburial. (Christopher Onstott, The Spectrum)


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The man who stood before Annie Elizabeth Hoag's southern Utah congregation on Sep. 6, 1857, was dressed in military attire, a red sash tied around his waist. His name was John D. Lee.

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