Title: Tragedy and truth
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.
Subjects: Mormons, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Massacres, Militia, Haun's Mill Massacre, Mo., 1838, Biography, Crimes against, History, Church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, Missouri, history, Mormons, biography
Places: Caldwell County, Caldwell County (Mo.), Missouri
Time periods: 19th century