Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre At Mountain Meadows by Bagley, Will - 2002

University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. 5th or later Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. one corner crease

Norman.: University of Oklahoma Press., 2002.. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy (very light stain on front panel).. 4to.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

The story of the 1857 massacre of the Fracher party at the hands of Mormon militia and Southern Paiute Indians. Quarter tan cloth and tan paper covered boards, notes, bibliography, index, numerous black and white photographs. Very good+ in VG dust jacket. Head and heel of spine no longer crisp, light bump to upper tip of rear board, hence VG grade.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 493 pages, maps, illustrations. The author uses unpublished journals, letters, and documents, maps and photos, to shed new light on the massacre..

University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0806134267 . 1.42 x 10.42 x 7.24 Inches; 544 pages .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author on the colophon of which this is copy 14. Also signed and dated on the half title page by the author. Includes the special keepsake that was printed for this special edition. Full green leather with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine marbled front and rear endpapers, xxiv, 493 [2] pp., frontispiece., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons… Read More