September Dawn
by Carole Whang Schutter (Goodreads author!)
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Read in January, 2008
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After reading the book September Dawn, by Carole Whang Schutter I find myself mystified and horrified by the events in the book. Although a work of fiction, many of the events, people, accounts, meetings, and speeches were based on actual events.
The early Mormon religion and its followers slaughtered innocent women, men, and children, all in the name of God. How misled they ...more
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After reading the book September Dawn, by Carole Whang Schutter I find myself mystified and horrified by the events in the book. Although a work of fiction, many of the events, people, accounts, meetings, and speeches were based on actual events.
The early Mormon religion and its followers slaughtered innocent women, men, and children, all in the name of God. How misled they ...more
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The Fancher-Baker wagon train travels from Arkansas and Missouri through Utah on their way to California. They’d stopped to rest their cattle and horses in a valley called Mountain Meadows. Little did they know, this valley is within the Iron County Military District of the Nauvoo Legion, the popular designation for the militia of the Utah Territory. The author goes to great lengths detailing the hostility of the Mormon people towards the citizens of Missouri as well as the federal government,...more
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Read in February, 2008
The four stars is actually for the movie, which I just saw (17 February, 2008). I'm not sure that I'm actually going to read this book--I'll read Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (q.v.) first--but I quite impressed by how many of the words (probably precisely the ones that a casual viewer would pick as the most likely to be wild exaggerations) in the movie were taken verbatim from speeches of the period (I know my Mormon history, and I recognized the cit...more
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Read in August, 2007
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Carole Whang Schutterrecommends it for: Historians of the American Westward Movement; Atheists, Theists and Agnostics
This book is not just an attempt to capitalize off the success of the movie. The author is well researched and represents a measured interpretation of the historical record. The love story, which did not likely occur, adds an element of human decency, intrigue and humanity to what might otherwise be a horror story. The issues most hotly contested by LDS defenders, with respect to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, will press their hot buttons for sure. However, any serious student of this great Amer...more
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Read in March, 2008
This book will make you MAD! I can't believe this cover-up really happened. I felt like throwing up reading about the details of the massacre toward the end of the book. It was interesting to learn about the History of the Mormon religion but I didn't like how the love story of "Emily" and "Jonathon" kept getting interupted throughout the book. Overall, I thought it was an interesting read. Beware - the truth will make you sick... and really think!!
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