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Mojave Desert HistoryMountain Meadows Massacre
Led by Captains John T. Baker and Alexander Fancher, a California-bound wagon train from Arkansas camped
in the valley below this monument in the late summer of 1857 during the time of the so-called Utah War. In
the early morning hours of September 7th, a party of local Mormon settlers and Indians attacked and laid seige
to the encampment. For reasons not fully understood, a contingent of territorial militia was ordered to join
the attack against the wagon train. Complex animosities and political issues intertwined with religious beliefs
motivated the Mormons, but the exact causes and circumstances fostering the sad events that ensued over the next
five days at Mountain Meadows still defy any clear or simple explanation.
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![]() Monument on Dan Sill Hill ![]() Massacre site (approximate center of photo) ![]() Encampment siege site and spring (right center), Burial site (left center) ![]() Mass burial site and monument ![]() Site map |
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