Hell in the Promised Land: environment and the Mountain Meadow Massacre
Date
2018
Authors
Maxwell, Dillon, author
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In Mid-September 1857, a wagon train of 120 men, women, and children headed to California were killed by Mormon Militiamen in southwestern Utah. The Militiamen spared none except several small children. The discussion on Mountain Meadows has been focused on cultural and social causes, while the environment sits as a backdrop. Amidst these social tensions, drought and erratic weather helped push the violence at Mountain Meadows in motion. For this I used an interdisciplinary methodology which included secondary historic literature, desert ecological studies, rangeland studies, and PDSI index maps.
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CSU Department of History.
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environmental history
American West
history
Utah
Mountain Meadow Massacre