Mountain Meadows Massacre
Subtitle: Collected Legal Papers, Two-Volume Set
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: May 11, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 1096
ISBN-13: 9780806157238
Description: "The editors of this two-volume collection combed public and private manuscript collections across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the [Mountain Meadows Massacre's] aftermath. The documents they unearthed, transcribed and presented here, cover a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre in 1857 to the dismissal of the last indictment against a perpetrator in 1896. Volume 1 tells the first half of the story: the records of the investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments, eight of which never resulted in a trial conviction. Volume 2 details the legal proceedings against the one man indicted to go to trial, John D. Lee. Lee’s trials led to his confession and conviction, and ultimately to his execution on the massacre site in 1877, all documented in Volume 2."--
Notes: Source title: Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers, Two-Volume Set