The Mountain Meadows Massacre |

“This is the right place” declared Brigham Young as he entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. 

Persecuted and harassed in every place they had tried to make a home, the Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons, establish Zion in the Great Salt Lake Valley. Ten years later, however, in 1857, rumors abound that President James Buchanan is sending someone new to replace Brigham Young as Governor of the Utah Territory.

The Mormons refuse to be persecuted any longer. If the United States wants war with the Mormons - war is what they will get. 

Music from Epidemic Sound.

Sources for this episode include:

• The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Newsroom
• The American Presidency Project: Republican Party Platform of 1856
• American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
• The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood by William Haywood
• Roughneck : the life and times of Big Bill Haywood by Peter Carlson
• Big Bill Haywood threatens to close the mines
• The Daily Journal (Telluride), April 21, 1914