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Index to claims made in Blood of the Prophets

A FAIR Analysis of: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, a work by author: Will Balgey

Use of sources

This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within tFairMormon Answers. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Front matter"

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• Response to claim: xiv - The author states that he believes that Brigham Young meant exactly what he said regarding Blood Atonement

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 1: Their Innocent Blood Will Cry unto the Lord of Hosts"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 2: The Battle-Ax of the Lord"

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• Response to claim: 27 - The author claims that Mormons saw Indians as instrument of vengeance for Joseph's murder
• Response to claim: 27 - The author states that Joseph Smith "plunged into new sealings to married women, sisters, and very young girls"
• Response to claim: 33 - The author implies that federal officials "died mysteriously" at the hands of Mormons
• Response to claim; 36 - The author claims that Mormon missionaries "were called to prepare the Indians for their role in the impending apocalypse"
• Response to claim: 37 - The author claims that Indians were regarded by Mormons "as a weapon God had placed in their hands"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 3: Political Hacks, Robbers, and Whoremongers"

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• Response to claim: 39 - The author provides innuendo about death of Wakara from pneumonia "but perhaps from poison"
• Response to claim: 50-52 - Blood atonement is presented as an active teaching, as prelude to the Massacre
• Response to claim: 51 - Blood atonement to be implemented for those guilty of "the unpardonable sin"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 4: The Arkansas Travelers"

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• Response to claim: 58 - The author's treatment of the violent past of Alexander Fancher
• Response to claim; 63 - The author's treatment of violent past of John "Jack" Baker

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 5: I Will Fight Them and I Will Fight All Hell"

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• Response to claim: 77 - The author credits the report of Judge William W. Drummond on Mormon "murders"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 6: We Are American Citizens and Shall Not Move"

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• Response to claim: 99 - The author claims that all information about the "emigrants' conduct came from men involved in their murder or cover-up"
• Response to claim: 101 - Mormons in American Fork refused to trade with the Fancher party
• Response to claim: 119-120 - Account of William Hawley regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Response to claim: 121 - The author claims that Mountain Meadows was known among the Mormons as "a preferred location for the quiet execution of unpleasant tasks"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 7: The Knife and Tomahawk"

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• Response to claim: 137 - Brigham Young's letter stating that the immigrants should be spared carried a "hidden" message to "make sure the Mormons could blame whatever happened on the Paiutes"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 8: The Work of Death"

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• Response to claim: 151 - It is claimed that Jacob Hamblin's adoptive son Albert raped two women at the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 9: The Scene of Blood and Carnage"

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• Response to claim: 170 - Brigham Young is claimed to have met with two Indian chiefs who then participated in the massacre
• Response to claim: 170 - Brigham Young is claimed to have "rewarded" Indian chief Tutsegabit for his role in the massacre by ordaining him to the priesthood
• Response to claim: 170a - Brigham Young is claimed to have "rewarded" Indian chief Arapeen with booty from the Massacre

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 10: Plunder"

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• The testimony of Bishop Philip Klingensmith regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 11: All Hell Is in Commotion"

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• Response to claim: 196 - Brigham gave a gift of salt to the U.S. army, which it was implied was poisoned
• Response to claim: 198 - The author refers to Col. Thomas Kane as a "hypochondriac"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 12: I Have Slain My Children"

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• Response to claim: 220 - The author claims to have found another source by John D. Lee

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 13: Vengeance Is Mine"

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• Response to claim: 246 - It is claimed that Brigham Young's trip south in May 1861 was to keep Utahans quiet about the Massacre

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 14: A Hideous Lethargic Dream"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 15: Lonely Dell"

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• Response to claim: 269 - The author states that the Wandell source is "flawed and sometimes suspect" after he uses is uncritically

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 16: As False as the Hinges of Hell: The Trials of John D. Lee"

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• Response to claim: 304-305= - It is claimed that Jacob Hamblin's adoptive son Albert raped two women at the Massacre

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 17: He Died Game: The Execution of John D. Lee"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 18: The Mountain Meadow Dogs"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Chapter 19: Nothing but the Truth Is Good Enough"

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Epilogue: The Ghosts of Mountain Valley"

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• Response to claim: 367 - The Author states that historian Thomas Alexander claimed that "the Indians made them do it
• Response to claim: 378 - The author claims that the massacre is not an aberration, but a "fulfillment" of Joseph's teachings
• Response to claim: 379 - The author refers to "early Mormonism’s peculiar obsession with blood and vengeance"

Responses to claims made in Blood of the Prophets, "Appendix"