Historian, descendant of a participant
Juanita Brooks
1898–1989
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Historian, descendant of a participant
Brooks, herself descended from a southern Utah participant, published The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1950 against the wishes of local church leadership and made it impossible to keep blaming the Paiutes. Her verdict — that Brigham Young and George A. Smith did not order the massacre but preached the sermons and built the conditions that made it possible, and that Young was an accessory after the fact — is still the axis around which the argument turns. Turley and Brown dedicated their 2023 volume to her.
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Juanita Brooks publishes The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Brooks, a southern Utah writer descended from a participant, published the first documented account by a Latter-day Saint. She concluded that Brigham Young and George A. Smith did not order the massacre but preached the sermons and set the conditions that made it possible, and that Young was an accessory after the fact. She also recorded that other Mormon scholars had been counselled off the subject with enough force that they feared for their positions and membership.
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Juanita Brooks
The founding modern account and its verdict: leaders did not order the massacre but created the conditions, and Young was an accessory after the fact.
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