The Mountain Meadows Massacre : Contemporary Images

These images relate to the Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857), an event that saw Mormon frontier soldiers attack and kill 140 innocent Arkansans, who were part of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon, as they crossed the Utah Territory. The massacre was retaliatory, as Mormon "Apostle," Parley P. Pratt, had been killed by one of his wives estranged ex-husbands, in Arkansas, that same year, albeit in a completely unrelated incident, and did not involve these particular Arkansans. This massacre is an early example of murderous Mormon thuggery, of which, is often a response to "violations" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' theocratic dogmas.

The outdoor images are from a Mormon gathering to the site of the massacre in 1900.

The images with the tombstone monument are memorials to the massacre located in Arkansas.

Mormon monument to John Doyle Lee, one of the Mormon assassins

Tombstone of W.C. Stewart, one of the Mormon assassins