Tragedy and truth
Subtitle: what happened at Hawn's Mill
By: general editor, Alexander L. Baugh ; contributing editors: Glenn Rawson and Dennis Lyman ; contributions by Max H. Parkin, Gerrit Dirkmaat, and Brent M. Rogers
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: American Fork, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781621088400
Subjects: Mormons; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Massacres; Militia; Haun's Mill Massacre, Mo., 1838; Biography; Crimes against; History
Other titles: Hawn's Mill; History of the Saints (Television series)
Description: Discusses why and how the massacre at Hawn's Mill happened on the afternoon of October 30, 1838, when a vigilante force of more than two hundred armed men attacked and raided the small settlement and killed seventeen Mormon men and boys and wounded others.
Notes: At head of the title: History of the Saints.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mormonism on Missouri's western frontier, 1830-1838; title: The 1838 Mormon-Missouri war: historical setting to the Hawn's Mill tragedy; title: Jacob Hawn and the Hawn's Mill settlement in eastern Caldwell County; title: A scene of blood and horror: the atttack on the Hawn's Mill settlement; title: Living with the memory of the Hawn's Mill Massacre: aftermath, exodous, and efforts to obtain redress.