Author: John Doyle Lee

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Published: 2013-09-16

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781492733324

In his own words, a lurid look at the Mountain Meadows Massacre atrocity and John D. Lee. This is a book that every thinking person and student of history must read.CHAPTER I - THE STORMY YOUTH OF LEECHAPTER II - LEE BEGINS A CAREERCHAPTER III - LEE BECOMES A MORMONCHAPTER IV - THE SAINTS BESET WITH TROUBLESCHAPTER V - THE MORMON WARCHAPTER VI - LEE LOCATES THE GARDEN OF EDENCHAPTER VII - THE SAINTS GATHER AT NAUVOOCHAPTER VIII - LEE AS A MISSIONARYCHAPTER IX - MORMONISM AND ITS ORIGINCHAPTER X - LEE CASTS OUT DEVILSCHAPTER XI - HOT FOR LEE IN TENNESSEECHAPTER XII - OF PECULIAR INTEREST IN NAUVOOCHAPTER XIII - DEATH OF JOSEPH SMITHCHAPTER XIV - THE DOCTRINE OF SEALINGCHAPTER XV - THE SAINTS TURN WESTWARDCHAPTER XVI - LEE GOES TO SANTA FECHAPTER XVII - LEE IS TREATED BADLY BY THE BRETHRENCHAPTER XVIII - THE DANITE AND HIS DUTYCHAPTER XIX - THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWSCHAPTER XX - THE MUSTER OF THE DANITESCHAPTER XXI - THE BLOOD FEAST OF THE DANITESCHAPTER XXII - THE DANITE CHIEF REPORTS TO BRIGHAMCHAPTER XXIII - LEE NEARS THE ENDAPPENDIX I - BLOOD ATONEMENTAPPENDIX II - THE STORY OF LEE'S ARRESTAPPENDIX III - DEATH OF JOHN DOYLE LEEAlmost a half century ago, being in 1857, John Doyle Lee, a chief among that red brotherhood, the Danites, was ordered by Brigham Young and the leading counselors of the Mormon Church to take his men and murder a party of emigrants then on their way through Utah to California. The Mormon orders were to kill all who can talk, and, in their carrying out, Lee and his Danites, with certain Indians whom he had recruited in the name of scalps and pillage, slaughtered over one hundred and twenty men, women and children and left their stripped bodies to the elements and the wolves. This wholesale murder was given the title of The Mountain Meadow Massacre. Twenty years later, in 1877, the belated justice of this Government seated Lee on his coffin, and shot him to death for his crimes. In addition to writing about his life, Lee also gives among other matters the story of the Church of Mormon from its inception, when Joseph Smith pretended, with the aid of Urim and Thummim, to translate the golden plates. Lewis then goes on to allege that in the name of Mormon safety, Brigham Young, by money and other agencies worked to have this book suppressed.