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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Express rider
Haslam carried Haight's dispatch from Cedar City to Salt Lake City and Brigham Young's reply back again. He testified at Lee's second trial that he left Cedar City on 7 September between five and six in the evening, reached Salt Lake City Thursday at eleven in the morning, started back at three, and reached Cedar City about eleven on Sunday morning — two days after the massacre. The timing of his ride is the single most argued-over fact in the case.
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The Cedar City council and the express to Salt Lake
Local leaders met at Cedar City. Laban Morrill, a member of the stake high council, objected to the plan. The meeting resolved to put the question to Brigham Young and dispatch a fast rider. By then Lee was already on his way to the Meadows with orders to gather Paiutes, and other couriers had been sent to the outlying settlements.
The first attack and the siege beginhinge
At dawn the emigrants were fired on in their camp at Mountain Meadows. Several were killed and others wounded; the company circled and dug in, banking earth against the wagon wheels, and held out for days with no access to the spring. Attackers had painted themselves; survivors later said they saw the paint washed off in the creek. James Haslam left Cedar City for Salt Lake City between five and six that evening.
Brigham Young writes back: 'let them go in peace'hinge
Haslam reached Salt Lake City and interrupted Young in a meeting with Jacob Hamblin. Young replied the same day to Haight: 'In regard to emigration trains passing through our settlements, we must not interfere with them until they are first notified to keep away. You must not meddle with them. The Indians we expect will do as they please but you should try and preserve good feelings with them. There are no other trains going south that I know of. If those that are there will leave, let them go in peace.' Haslam started back within the hour.
Haslam returns with the letter
Haslam reached Cedar City about eleven on Sunday morning, having ridden roughly 600 miles in six days. The letter he carried told the settlers not to meddle with the train. The massacre was two days old.
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