Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young

In September 1857, the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train was travelling on their way to California.\nThey would never make it further than Mountain Meadows in southern Utah.\nThe Nauvoo legion, composed of southern Utah’s Mormon settlers, attacked the emigrants with guns and bowie knives with the intention of leaving no witnesses and thus prevent reprisals.\nOf the one hundred and twenty emigrants only seventeen children under seven were left alive.\nWhy did this abhorrent massacre occur?\nAnd who organized and instigated this atrocity?\nJohn D. Lee was a prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah was sentenced to death for his complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre.\nYet, before he was executed, he recorded the story of his life, including the awful events of September 1857, in his book Mormonism Unveiled; Life and Confessions of John D. Lee.\nThis book covers the earliest days of Mormonism and how the religion developed under the leadership of Brigham Young and is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth century America.\nJohn D. Lee was an American pioneer and prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah. He was executed for his part in the Mountain Meadows massacre in 1877 and his book Mormonism Unveiled: The Life and Confession of John D. Lee and the Complete Life of Brigham Young was published in the same year.\nAs a bonus to the reader the publisher has also included Ann Eliza Young’s memoir Wife No. 19: The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Exposé of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy and William Adams Hickman’s memoir Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah to provide two further accounts of life in the Mormon church during this controversial period.