Vengeance Is Mine

Richard E. Turley Jr. was a long-time historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a co-author of Massacre at Mountain Meadows. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Historical Association's Herbert Feis Award and the Historic Preservation Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Turley also represented relatives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre victims in their successful petition of the federal government to grant National Historic Landmark status for the atrocity site.Barbara Jones Brown is the director of Signature Books Publishing and former executive director of the Mormon History Association. She also provided content editing for Massacre at Mountain Meadows. She holds an M.A. in American history from the University of Utah and a B.A. in journalism and English from Brigham Young University. While researching her genealogy after beginning work on Vengeance Is Mine, Brown discovered that, like the earlier Mountain Meadows Massacre historian, Juanita Brooks, she is a direct descendant of one of its perpetrators.

• 1. The Angel of Peace Should Extend His Wings2. Sermons Like Pitch Forks3. Imposed Upon No More4. Too Late5. Forget Everything6. The Sound of War7. An Awful Tale of Blood8. Indians Hostile to All Strangers9. The Spirit of the Times10. A Lion in the Path11. Make the Mormons Pay 12. Fearful Calamities13. Peacefully Submitting14. The Moment Is Critical15. Make All Inquiry16. Join the Know Nothings17. A Line of Policy18. An Inquisition19. Bring to Light the Perpetrators20. Nothing But Evasive Replies21. Make Diligent Inquiry22. Approach of the Troops23. Catching Is Before Hanging24. Precious Legacies from the Departed Ones25. Unwilling to Rest Under the Stigma26. The Course Adopted Will Not Prove Successful27. Vengeance is Mine28. In the Midst of a Desolating War29. Too Horrible to Contemplate30. Cut Off31. Boiling Conditions32. Zeal O'erleaped Itself33. The Time Has Come34. Do You Plead Guilty35. Open the Ball36. Make a Clean Breast of It37. A Lively Skirmish38. The Curtain Has Fallen39. Coerce Me to Make a Statement40. Mr. Howard Gives Promise41. The Responsibility Before You42. Sufficient to Warrant a Verdict43. The Demands of Justice44. Allow the Law to Take Its Course45. Under Sentence of Death46. Failure to Arrest These Men47. Haunted Notes

This haunting, exhaustively-researched account stands as the definitive study of the long afterlife of the Mountain Meadows massacre.