With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching "army" coming to drive the Mormons from their homes.
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Background Information
Founded by Joseph Smith and later led by Brigham Young, the Church of Latter Day Saints is better known as the Mormons. Utah was formed from the territory colonized by the Mormon Church under Brigham Young.