Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture

Author/Contributor(s):	Johnson, Janiece
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	05/30/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In Convicting the Mormons, Janiece Johnson goes beyond the Mountain Meadows Massacre itself, analyzing how sensationalist media attention exacerbated public and legal perception of the Mormon religion. Johnson reveals that critics of Mormonism used the massacre to warn of a 'Mormon Menace' on America's West and to encourage government action against the Latter-day Saints"--