Utah and the Mormons. Speech of Hon. John Cradlebaugh, of Nevada on the Admission of Utah as a State Cradlebaugh, John Utah

67pp. Octavo [26 cm] Nicely bound in a 1/2 tan calf over brown cloth with 'Mountain Meadows' stamped on the backstrip. New endsheets and pastedowns. Better than very good. Major work, and one of the first, on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Judge John Cradlebaugh. In this work Cradlebaugh describes his investigations and reveals the basic facts of the atrocity. He wasn't able to deliver the speech in person, but was allowed to print it. "No one caused the Mormons more trouble, than John Cradlebaugh, a tall lean, middle-aged lawyer from Ohio." - Will Bagley In the late summer of 1857, the Fancher-Baker party, traveled through the Utah Territory on their way to California. They stopped to rest and graze their cattle at Mountain Meadows, a known stopping point on the Old Spanish Trail. On September 11, the group was attacked by the local Mormon militia under the direction of John D. Lee and others. The unprovoked slaughter left at least 120 men, women, and children dead. Eberstadt 133:922. Fales & Flake 246. Flake/Draper 2572. Graff 899. Howes C840. Sabin 17331. Woodward 46. 36th Cong. 1st Sess. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 32.