MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
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UTAH NEWSPAPERS 1857-1932
(Timeline: The Mountain Meadows Massacre Took Place on September 11, 1857)
Remarks of Elder George A. Smith, Bowery, Sunday Afternoon, September 13, 1857 - Deseret News, September 23, 1857
Remarks, California Mail - Deseret News, September 23, 1857
(Timeline: Dr. Jacob Forney, The Superintendent of Indian Affairs, arrives in Utah to Investigate the Massacre and collects the Arkansas Emigrants' 17 orphaned children from Mormon Homes in April, 1859)
Discharge Of The Grand Jury (Statement of Judge John Cradlebaugh) - Valley Tan, March 29, 1859
Visit of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs to Southern Utah - Deseret News, May 5, 1859
Return of Sup't Forney From The Mountain Meadows - Valley Tan, May 5, 1859
Affairs In Utah, The President's Instructions To The District Attorney Of The Territory - Valley Tan, July 6, 1859
A Visit To The Mountain Meadows - Union Vedette, June 30, 1864
Detailed Description Of The Mountain Meadows Massacre Site in 1864.
Mountain Meadow Massacre - Union Vedette, July 27, 1866
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Deseret News, December 1, 1869
(Timeline: Bishop Phillip Klingensmith's Sworn Affidavit Relating To Mormon Participation In The Massacre, April 10, 1871)
As Ye Sow, Ye Shall Reap, Salt Lake Tribune, September 23, 1872
Murder Most Foul - Daily Corinne Reporter, September 23, 1872
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Daily Corinne Reporter, September 24, 1872
Affidavit of Phillip Klingon Smith (Klingensmith)
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 1872
C. W. Wandell's Lecture on the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, January 31, 1873
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, February 6, 1873
Letter of George C. Bates, Ex-United States District Attorney
Crime Strangely Exposed, Rock Photographs of the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, March 3, 1874
Mountain Meadows Monument - Salt Lake Tribune, May 27, 1874
Mountain Meadows, A Visit To The Site of the Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, August 15, 1874
Some Startling Facts - Salt Lake Tribune, August 21, 1874
George A. Hicks Tells What He Knows Of The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Anniversary Cogitations - Salt Lake Tribune, September 16, 1874
An Open Letter To Ex-President Brigham Young On The 17th Anniversary Of The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Died Of Remorse, Haunted By The Victims Of Mountain Meadows - Salt Lake Tribune, September 19, 1874
Mountain Meadows Witnesses - Salt Lake Tribune, September 27, 1874
Murder Will Out - Salt Lake Tribune, October 9, 1874
(Timeline: John Doyle Lee Was Captured in November, 1874.)
John D. Lee, Of Mountain Meadows - Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1874
That Butchery, Thrilling Narrative Of the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, November 21, 1874
Mormon Murders - Salt Lake Tribune, November 26, 1874
From San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1874
Whitewashing Lee - Salt Lake Tribune, November 28, 1874
Lingering Hope, A Tennesee Father Makes Inquiry Of The Tribune For His Son, Supposed Victim Of The Mountain Meadows Massacre, Reward of One Thousand Dollars Offered For His Recovery - Salt Lake Tribune, December 24, 1874
(S.B. Aden's son, William A. Aden, was one of the victims of the Massacre.)
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, January 18, 1875
Compounding Felony - Salt Lake Tribine, March 3, 1875
Bring Out Your Dead - Salt Lake Tribune, March 24, 1875
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, May 9, 1875
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, May 12, 1875
Interview With John D. Lee Published In The Philadelphia Times May 3, 1875
Mountain Meadows - Salt Lake Tribune, June 13, 1875
Lee And The Priesthood - Salt Lake Tribune, July 18, 1875
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, July 22, 1875
Includes Brigham Young's Declaration of Martial Law of September 15, 1857
(Timeline: The First Trial of John D. Lee Began on July 23, 1875)
The Massacre, Opinions Of The Press Throughout The Country - Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 1875
Remarks On The Lee Trial -Salt Lake Tribune, July 29, 1875
The Real Criminals - Salt Lake Tribune, July 29, 1875
Voice Of The Press - Salt Lake Tribune, July 29, 1875
Includes Sacramento Union
Mormon Butchery! The Press Of The Land Speak in Thunder Tones - Salt Lake Tribune, August 1, 1875
Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, August 1, 1875
From Pittsburg Record
Judge Spicer's Address - Salt Lake Tribune, August 3, 1875
Case Of The Defense - Salt Lake Tribune, August 3, 1875
The Lee Trail - Salt Lake Tribine, August 3, 1875. Brigham Young Deposition
Depositions of President Brigham Young and Geo. A. Smith Concerning the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Deseret News, August 4, 1875. Brigham Young Deposition
Brigham Young - Deseret News, August 4, 1875
George A. Smith Deposition
Equal and Exact Justice - Salt Lake Tribune, August 4, 1875
Brigham's Yarn Analyzed - Salt Lake Tribune, August 5, 1875
Strange Proceedings - Salt Lake Tribine, August 5, 1875
The Lee Trail - Salt Lake Tribune, August 5, 1875
The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, August 7, 1875
The Lee Trial - Deseret News, August 9, 1875
Address of E.D. Hoge, Esq., Counsel For the Defense, to the Jury, in the Second District Court at Beaver, August 4, 1875
The Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, August 10, 1875
Our Country Contemporaries - Deseret News, August 11, 1875
Synopsis of Mr. Wells Spicer's opening address for the defense in John D. Lee Trail
Martial Law - Salt Lake Tribune, August 11, 1875
Lee To Be Confined In The Penitentiary - Salt Lake Tribune, August 11, 1875
The Herald's Strategy - Salt Lake Tribune, August 11, 1875
The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, August 12, 1875
Verdict Of The People - Salt Lake Tribune, August 12, 1875
Endowment Robed Jury - Salt Lake Tribune, August 15, 1875
Another False Sensational Petition - Deseret News, September 15, 1875
Blood Atonement - Salt Lake Tribune, September 17, 1875
The Republic's Shame - Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 1875
(Timeline: The Second Trial of John Lee Began On September 14, 1876)
The Lee Trial - Salt Lake Tribune, September 15, 1876
The Trial - Salt Lake Tribune, September 16, 1876
The Lee Case - Salt Lake Tribune, September 17, 1876
The Lee Trial, Petit Jury Impanelled - Deseret News, September 20, 1876
Beaver - Salt Lake Tribune, September 24, 1876
The Church Absolved - Salt Lake Tribune, September 26, 1876
Gilbert Morse - Salt Lake Tribune, September September 28, 1876
The Mormon Church - Salt Lake Tribune, October 1, 1876
Blind Justice, Letter From a Tennessee Father Whose Son Was First to Fall at Mountain Meadows - Salt Lake Trib., Nov. 19, 1876
John D. Lee - Salt Lake Tribune, February 14, 1877
(Timeline: John D. Lee was executed on March 23, 1877 at the Mountain Meadows Massacre Site.)
The Last Of Lee - Salt Lake Tribune, March 24, 1877
Lee's Story! - Salt Lake Tribune, March 25, 1877
Public Opinion, What The Press and Public Think... - Salt Lake Tribune, March 29, 1877
Chicago (?), New York Evening Post
Shooting Of Lee!, Execution, John D. Lee Interview With Tribune Reporter - Salt Lake Tribune, March 30, 1877
The Press Speaking - Salt Lake Tribune, March 30, 1877
(Eureka Sentinel in Nevada)
After The Massacre, Account By Deputy U.S. Marshall W.H. Rogers, Visit to Mtn. Meadows With Dr. Forney, Search For The Children - Salt Lake Tribune, April 1, 1877
Press Comments - Salt Lake Tribune, April 3, 1877
St. Louis Republican, New York Tribune, Leavenworth Times, New York Herald, Kansas City Journal, Pueblo Chieftain, Hartford Post,
Philadelphia Times
Utah's Shame, Opinions Of The Press - Salt Lake Tribune, April 4, 1877
Cinncinnati Commercial, San Francisco Alta, New York Herald
Execution of John D. Lee - Salt Lake Tribune, April 5, 1877
Hollister (California) Enterprise
Mormon Crimes - Salt Lake Tribune, April 7, 1877
Excerpts from: San Francisco Chronicle, Gold Hill News, Green River Press, Utica Herald, Philadelphia Telegraph, Baltimore Gazette, Jersey City Argus, Ohio State Journal, Dayton (Ohio) Democrat, Yankton (D.T.) Press
Mormon Record Of Blood - Salt Lake Tribune, April 11, 1877
Excerpts from: New York Herald, Dayton (Ohio) Democrat, Alta (California), New Orleans Picayune, Washington (Utah) Capital, Rearney (Nebraska) Press, Frankfort (Kentucky) Yeoman, Detroit Post, Sharon Springs (New York) Gazette, San Jose Herald, Norristown (Pennsylvania) Herald, Hutchinson (Kansas) Interior, Dayton (Ohio) Democrat
Mountain Meadiows - Salt Lake Tribune, April 22, 1877
Whose Sin Was It? - Deseret News, April 25, 1877
The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Salt Lake Tribune, May 2, 1877
Glasgow (Scotland) Weekly Mail
Brigham Young's Defiance - Salt Lake Tribune, May 4, 1877
The Utah District Attorney - Salt Lake Tribune, January 11, 1878
St. Louis Republican
Mountain Meadows - Salt Lake Tribune, July 4, 1884
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows - Deseret News, July 9, 1884
Mountain Meadow's Ghosts - Salt Lake Tribune, December 22, 1890
Mountain Meadows National Cemetery - Salt Lake Herald, July 2, 1901
Salt Lake Writer Visits Mt. Meadows Massacre Site - Millard County Chronicle, May 14, 1931
Seventy-Four Years of Neglect (Massacre Site) - Millard County Chronicle, August 10, 1931
Marker Erected At Mountain Meadows - Garfield County, September 9, 1932
Monument To Be Erected At Mountain Meadows - Kane County Standard, August 5, 1932
Marker Erected At Mountain Meadows On September 10th - Millard County Chronicle, September 15, 1932
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