1. Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002); Sally Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003).

2. For example, see Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1950).

3. Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

4. For more information see Shane A. Baker, Richard K. Talbot, and Lane D. Richens, “Archaeological Remote Sensing Studies and Emergency Data Recovery at 42WS2504, Washington County, Utah,” Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 03-8 (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2003); and Bagley, Blood of the Prophets, 372–74.

5. Shannon A. Novak and Derinna Kopp, “To Feed a Tree in Zion: Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre,” Historical Archaeology 37, no. 2 (2003): 85–108; Shannon A. Novak and Lars Rodseth, “Remembering Mountain Meadows: Collective Violence and the Manipulation of Social Boundaries,” Journal of Anthropological Research 62 (Spring 2006): 1–25.

6. See also Novak and Kopp, “To Feed a Tree in Zion,” 97.

7. For example, see Walker, Turley, and Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, 156–58.

8. See also Novak and Rodseth, “Remembering Mountain Meadows,” 7.

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