A long overdue Books of Mormons Report, and we’re making it an episode. Lindsay and Bryan trace how the Mountain Meadows Massacre got written about, argued over, buried, resurrected, and fought over again, from Judge John Cradlebaugh and Major James Carleton’s early investigations, to decades of institutional silence and PR cleanup, to Juanita Brooks’ landmark break with the taboo, and on through Will Bagley and the Church historians’ competing accounts. It’s a backstage history of the history, messy sources, missing manuscripts, politics, motives, and the uncomfortable truth that what gets printed, and what gets suppressed, becomes part of the story.