Mountain Meadows Massacre - Southwestern Utah Madness
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In early September 1857 a wagon train expedition of 140 people traveling from Arkansas stopped for camp at a spot called Mountain Meadows in Southwestern Utah. They were making their way to California. They wouldn't make it out of Mountain Meadows.
The emigrants were attacked by a group of Mormon Militia Men and a number of Paiute Natives, this attack turned into a siege that lasted days. The emigrants dug in and fought back. However, they were surrounded and eventually ran out of water. Most likely out of desperation the emigrants accepted the white flag of a truce offered by the Mormons and if they would give up their arms and some property they would be allowed to leave in peace and safety. Sounded like a plan. Except the Mormons deceived the group of Emigrants and instead of letting them leave, they slaughtered them.
And on September 11, 1857 having no weapons to protect themselves...the Mormon Militia separated the Emigrant Women and Children from the Men and then shot all the Men. Next, the Mormons beat the remaining Women and Children to death. Only 17 children survived out of a group of 140 people.
It wasn't until two years later that the US Army coming through the area discovered the scattered bones of the victims, burying what they could collect. And like many events of this nature, it has been kept quiet. Locally, I asked quite a few people who grew up in Southwestern Utah if they had been taught about the Massacre while in school, all of them said No.
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Thank you. I’ve heard about this years ago so it’s nice to get more of the story.
I was raised in northern Utah. Some of the history of this event was taught in school, but very little of it. I learned more about it when I moved to the St. George area than what I was taught in school.
Not surprising. Perhaps it's not something educators deemed important and possibly still don't.
Liked and subscribed. Thanks for the video (s). I am a long time western history buff.
My interest started when I lived in Winnemucca in the mid 50s.
Thank you very much for watching and supporting the channel! Currently I'm on a Prehistoric roll but I might try some investigative videos from the period of Spanish contact to 19th Century. Sadly, so much history is one sided.
@@EnigmaClandestino The Spanish Contact.
No one would believe a 10 year old kid when I found a Spanish bridle at Chief Winnemucca's winter camp ground.
But the museum did take it away from me. There i a reason there are hundreds of wild horses in Central/North and Eastern Nevada. They are not indigenous.
There is so much not known and unfortunately, unknowable.
This reminds me of driving through NM and finding a Civil War battlefield site. Last thing we expected to see.
Important piece of western US history for sure. We have to take both good and bad in history. This is one of those moments when things went horribly wrong. Good to remind us of the imperfectness of us humans.
History isn't taught anymore ..many people have no idea even about the pioneers to the country ..here in Australia it's amazing the blank faces when you mention an historical event ..sad society really .
From Australia
No, sadly it is not.
I had known of this event for quite a few decades mid 1970s). This as a result of investigating Mormon history,
No I am not a Mormon. I wanted to know why my wife of 9 years (at that time) would join the Mormons
and abandon her family. This is just one of many inexplicable events in Mormon history.
We parted company. This profoundly affected the rest of my life.
I had to drive past to learn about it too.
WHAT, was the morman's problem ???
These people were just passing through !
Genghis Khan was just passing through.
You have to go back to Haun's Mill Missouri 1838 and the Missouri/Mormon war. Here a group of "Mormons," numbering 17 were massacred by a Missouri mob and although the Arkansas travelers had nothing to do with that, they were bragging that they had. They were also bragging about murdering "ol' Joe and his brother."
Among the dead Mormons at Haun's Mill were several young children, one of which was the son of John D Lee.
John Lee was the same Guy who nearly twenty years later, would be the ringleader at Mountain Meadows. The people there were gunned down just the way the Mormons had been in Missouri .
This is not any kind of excuse, just more of the story.