The following is an excerpt from Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture by Janiece Johnson which is available wherever books are sold. This book is fantastic! Elizabeth Fenton, University of Vermont Johnson's authorial voice and absolute command of the primary sources make this book an indispensable resource for historians examining the aftermath and American cultural perception of Mountain Meadows. Patrick Mason, Utah State University Crime Meets Punishment Leaving under the cover of darkness on an early spring night in 1877, a federal marshal brought John D. Lee over a hundred rough...