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Though the yearlong standoff was uneventful, tensions led to Mormons attacking and killing more than 100 innocent people in a wagon train bound for California.
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David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
That dispute comes to a bloody head in the first episode’s dramatic reenactment of a real-life mass murder, 1857’s Mountain Meadows Massacre — a deadly attack on a wagon train of settlers hailing from Arkansas and moving through the region now known as southern Utah.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The action is put in motion by a real-life (and really bloody) event: the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which church militia members slaughtered some 120 members of an emigrant wagon train.
—Chris Vognar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
That dispute comes to a bloody head in the first episode’s dramatic reenactment of a real-life mass murder, 1857’s Mountain Meadows Massacre — a deadly attack on a wagon train of settlers hailing from Arkansas and moving through the region now known as southern Utah.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The action is put in motion by a real-life (and really bloody) event: the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which church militia members slaughtered some 120 members of an emigrant wagon train.
—Chris Vognar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Wagon train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wagon%20train. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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