Monday, September 11, 2006
This Day in American History
On this day in 1857, on the Old Spanish Trail in Utah north of St. George, occurred the Mormon Mountain Meadows Massacre. Paiute indians, with or without Mromon militia help, had attacked a wagon train from Arkansas, known as the Baker/Fancher party, with 137 members. The Mormons under John D. Lee intervened, agreed to protect the party whom they disarmed, but on this day the milita turned on the men while the indians dipatched the women and older children. 120 died and 17 younger than 6 children were spared, and distributed to local Mormon families.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:34 AM 
