They brought sin with them
“He who is without sin can cast the first stone…” John 8:7
As the sun rose across the United States on September 12, 1857, the winds of hate and chaos were swirling from coast to coast. In southwestern Utah, buzzards would have glided on the updrafts above the bloated, torn and twisted bodies of 120 or so Americans, who

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows