What the records say
- When
- 11 Sep 1857
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 40.02° N, 105.38° W
- Description
- massacre in Utah, US in 1857
- Cause
- Conspiracy and Siege of the Mountain Meadows massacre
Placed at the town its title names, Mountain Meadows.
Killings and aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Massacre in Utah, US in 1857
The Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The attacks culminated on September 11, 1857, in the mass slaughter of the emigrant party by the Iron County district of the Utah Territorial Militia and some local Indians.
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