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Exploring Martha's Vineyard... Trial on the Mountain Meadows Massacre...
Exploring Martha's Vineyard... Trial on the Mountain Meadows Massacre...
Item # 699962
July 27, 1875
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, July 27, 1875 Page 2 has more than a full column of detailed reporting headed: "A SUMMER RESORT" "Representatives Of the Indian 'tribes--A Strange Myth--Exploits of the Atlantic--A New Telegraph Cable--Advantages of the Island As A Summer Resort--The Baptist Camp Meeting".
A very early report of this now quite famous and upscale resort island just south of Cape Cod.
Page 5 has a report headed: "The Mountain Meadow Massacre" "The Testimony of Fresh Witnesses--Smith's Story of the Massacre Confirmed--Brigham Young Arrives Just After the Affair Is Over".
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of an emigrant wagon train, occurring in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows. It was perpetrated by Mormons who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute Native Americans. The wagon train, made up mostly of families from Arkansas, was bound for California, traveling on the Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory.
Eight pages, nice condition.
Eight pages, nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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