The following is from a Letter to the Editor of the Provo Herald, 2 Oct 2002, signed by Ken Baguley of Elk Ridge.

"...What I know about the Mountain Meadows Massacre is this: My wife's great-aunt Dorothy Cannon Brown, daughter of Frank J. Cannon and grand-daughter of George Q. Cannon -- who was a counselor to President Brigham Young -- told us just before she died in 1970 at age 90, 'I want to tell you this because you willl understand.

   'Brigham Young's housekeeper was present when a rider suddenly came from Southern Utah with a message telling of the Missouri people coming through. Asking for advice as to what they should do, Brigham said, 'Go now and tell them to let those people go...and don't spare the horseflesh.'

   'Upon the rider's return, the horrible deed was already done. The housekeeper later worked for the Frank J. Cannon family and told her story to Dorothy Cannon.

   'If this eyewitness account doesn't tell us of the state of mind of President Young and his attempt to free those people from the subsequent horrible event in history, what kind of a juror would we be if such an event were to occur today?'"

Doris B. Rock, Heber City, UT

 

Well, now that clears it up for me!

Except that my brother's cousin's uncle's father, Jim-Bob, who once killed a skeeter with a rock and was councilor to the Grand Poobah, told us on his death-bed at a ripe ol' age of 102, "I want to tell you this... Brigham Young's housekeeper was a notorious liar and occasionally partook of the bottle."

I would call this a little far reaching, to say the least.

With all the hacking, editing, suppressing, altering and retooling that the Mormon church has done to the records of their own history it's impossible to know what really happened whenever they were involved. 

I am absolutely floored that anyone can call themselves a Historian and work for, or under the thumb of the Mormon Church with their blatent disregard for the truth.

I guess it wasn't enough to edit the Holy Bible with the Joseph Smith Translations, they actually had to continue engineering the truth for the next one hundred and eighty years......