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 …
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Off the Record: Telling the Rest of the Truth
Part IV of the Sunstone Classics Series Linda Sillitoe was a reporter for the Deseret News, co-author of Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders, and author of many novels and poetry collections. This piece is excerpted from a Sunstone article published in 1990. It starts on page 12 of issue 80. [Beginning in …