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 Posted: Fri Aug 31st, 2007 05:31 am
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Mana: 
 Interesting the movie says the wagoln train was from Kentucky?  The Fancher-Baker wagon train was from Arkansas , and members of the party were thought to be men who had had interactions with the Mormons back home. 

I have two books on the Subject , Still to read .  Mountain Meadow Massacre by Juanita Brooks which is considered the classic on the subject and a new one called American Massacre by Sally Denton.

Interesting is the men sent out to bury the bones came from Fort Tejon in California lead by James Carleton .  The same Carleton who was invovled with the Long Walk of the Navajo during the Civil War. 

I drove by Fort Tejon today on my way home from Oregon.  It sits at the top of the Grape Vine Canyon on interstate 5 .  Very interesting place to visit. 

I have also been to the site of the Massacre.  A friend that lived in Cedar City Utah was interested in the site and I was there to see Shakespeare in Cedar City so we went out to the site.  The site is maintained by the LDS Church in St. George.  We met a little old lady and her husband who come up and clean the monument each day . 

I think I will finally read the books and skip the movie.

Susan