Breasted,James HenryBiblio.com
Carleton, James HenryBiblio.com
Mountain Meadow Massacre. Special Report of the Mountain Meadow Massacre by J.H. Carleton Brevet Major United States Army Captain First Dragoons
1995ref. 11136Spokane WA: Arthur H. Clark Company 1995. 1/50 out of series. 38pp. Octavo 24 cm Red printed wrappers. Fine. This special printing was produced as the keepsake for the limited edition of The Life and Times of Philip Klingensmith. Brev. Maj. James H. Carleton had been dispatched by his commanding general in California in the spring of 1859 to escort U.S. Paymaster Henry Prince to Salt Lake City. He was also instructed to investigate the Mountain Meadows Massacre on his way. Upon his arrival in Cedar City he interviewed as many witnesses as could be found regarding the massacre. He and his men erected a rock cairn at the site of the massacre. This report on the massacre lays the blame squarely at the feet of Mormon leaders. "But how inadequate would be punishment of a few even by death for this crime for which nearly the whole Mormon population. from Brigham Young down were more or less instrumental in perpetrating. There are other heinous crimes to be punished besides this. Martial law would at best be but a temporary expedient. Crime is found in the footsteps of the Mormon wherever they go and so the evil must always exist as long as the Mormons themselves may exist." - p.17. Arthur H. Clark Company unknown
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