[PDF] The Sept. 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, a Dark Day in Utah History by Rodney Dalton - The attack then seige of a wagon train by the Nauvoo Legion of the Iron County Mormon Militia, culminating in the slaughter of all but seventeen children after their surrender - Paiutes deny involvement

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The Paiutes Deny Involvement .. Brevet Major Carleton, "[the scene was] too horrible and sickening for language to describe, human skeletons, disjointed bones, ghastly skulls and the hair of women were scattered in frightful profusion over a distance of two miles, the remains dismembered and flesh stripped from the bones by wolves, then only such bones were buried as lay scattered along nearest the road."