Remembering Mountain Meadows

“It was very famous in its day. The whole United States rang with its horrors.” But by 1872, when the classic Roughing It was first published, Mark Twain had to label it as “The now almost forgotten ‘Mountain Meadows Massacre.’” In 1872, the massacre was only 15 years old. Imagine how almost forgotten Mountain Meadows is today. I’ll tell you. When I googled “Mountain Meadows Massacre,” I scored 60,400 hits. “Sand Creek Massacre” saw my hits shoot up to 191,000. Google �