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Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation records, 1850-2012

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation
Title: Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation records
Dates: 1850-2012 (inclusive)
18502012
Quantity: 2 linear feet
Collection Number: ACCN 2023
Summary: The Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation records (1850-2012) consist of the foundation's newsletters, documents, newspaper and periodical articles, transcriptions of audio tapes, and information on the monument established as a memorial to those who were killed in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Historical Note

The Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation was formed in 1999 for the purposes of memorializing the massacre victims of 1857, of preserving the monument created to commemorate the Mountain Meadows Masscre, of obtaining unfettered access to the monument's site, and of publicizing the importance of this unique event in America's history.

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Content Description

The Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation records (1850-2012) consist primarily of materials pertaining to a historical investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 and of press accounts of the incident's significance and legacy. Only four folders relate to the foundation's activities.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Burr Fancher in 2003.

Donated by William W. Hatch in 2005.

Box 4, folder 10 donated by the Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation in 2012.

Box 4, folder 11 donated in 2013.

Processing Note

Processed by Lindsey Moore in 2006.

Addendum processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2009.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2013 and 2014.

Separated Materials

Three DVDs (A0216) and digital photographs (P1855) were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Application for National Historic Register and Commemorative Plate
  
  Dates: 1975
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Mountain Meadows Memorial Dedication Ceremonies
  
  Dates: 1990
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Newsletters: Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation
  
  Vol. 1-5.
  
  Dates: 1999-2000
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Newsletters: Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation
  
  Vol. 6-9.
  
  Dates: 2001
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Newsletters: Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation
  
  Vol. 10-13, 17,22, 24-25 and 33.
  
  Dates: 2002-2007
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832: Illinois Volunteers
  
  Company muster rolls which list the names of John Lee and Alexander Fancher.
  
  Dates: 1970
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Letters of William B. Temple
  
  Dates: 1850
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Letters from Indian Agents
  
  Dates: 1855-1860
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Chronology of Actions Related to the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
  
  Dates: 1856-1859
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Maps, Tables and Photographs Related to the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Mountain Meadows in the News
  
  Will Bagley collected and transcribed these sources.
  
  Dates: 1857
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Mountain Meadows in the News
  
  Part II of the Bagley collection.
  
  Dates: 1858-1877
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
- Description: Mountain Meadows in the News
  
  Part III of the Bagley collection.
  
  Dates: 1877-1996
  
  Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  
  Location: Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles
Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: William Clark, "A Trip Across the Plains in 1857"
  
  William Clark was an employee of a federal government-commissioned company which supplied military posts in Utah territory.
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Dimick B. Huntington's Journal
  
  Dates: 1857-1859
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: James Lynch's Affadavit and Jacob Forney's Letter Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  
  Dates: 1859
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Depositions from the Relatives and Friends of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Victims
  
  Dates: 1860
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Speech of John Cradlebaugh to the U.S. House of Representatives: Utah and the Mormons
  
  Dates: 1863
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Deposition of Brigham Young Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  
  Dates: 1875
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Accounts of the Survivors of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  
  Dates: 1875-1940
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: The Last Words of John D. Lee
  
  Dates: 1877
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Deposition of Malinda Cameron Scott Thurston
  
  Dates: 1877
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: B. G. Parker, "Recollections of the Mountain Meadow Massacre"
  
  Dates: 1901
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: "The Life and Adventures of Basil G. Parker: An Autobiography"
  
  Dates: 1902
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Report re the Destruction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Monument and the Graves of the Victims
  
  Dates: 1902
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Fancher Family Genealogy
  
  Dates: 1947
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Fancher Family Genealogy
  
  Dates: 1947
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 14
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Ballad of Mountain Meadows
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 15
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Letter to the Governor of the State of Utah
  
  Dates: 1933
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 16
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: J. H. Beadle, "Life in Utah"
  
  Dates: 1870
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 17
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: John W. Clampitt, "Echoes from the Rocky Mountains"
  
  Dates: 1888
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 18
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Hubert Howe Bancroft, "History of Utah, 1540-1886"
  
  Dates: 1889
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 19
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
- Description: Ralph R. Rea, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Completion as a Historic Episode"
  
  Dates: 1957
  
  Container: Box 2, Folder 20
  
  Location: Documents and Monograph Accounts
Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Earl L. Smith, "A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Mountain Meadows Massacre"
  
  Dates: 1950
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Ray W. Irwin, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre"
  
  Dates: 1950
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: John H. Harrison, "The Day the Mormons Found the End of the Blood Trail"
  
  Dates: 1975
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Eunice Bradbury, "Bloody Road to California"
  
  Dates: 1978
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Dale L. Walker, "Death of the Fancher Train"
  
  Dates: 1980
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Charles W. Sasser, "Massacre at Mountain Meadows"
  
  Dates: 1989
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Richard W. Rohrbacher, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Utah Territory-September 11, 1857"
  
  Dates: 1994
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Sarah B. Willeman, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre: A Crime and A Mystery"
  
  Dates: 2000
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 8
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Sally Denton, "What Happened at Mountain Meadows?"
  
  Dates: 2001
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 9
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Lucinda Fleeson, "The Battle of Salt Lake"
  
  Dates: 2001
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 10
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Roger V. Logan, "A Pilgramage to Some Local Places Connected to the History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Boone and Carroll Counties"
  
  Dates: 2001
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 11
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Lawrence Wright, "Lives of the Saints"
  
  Dates: 2002
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 12
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Caroline Fraser, "The Mormon Murder Case"
  
  Dates: 2002
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 13
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Gregory Laire, "Mountain Meadows"
  
  Dates: 2005
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 14
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Logan Hebner, "Angry and Thirsting for Blood Indians Have Been Blamed for the Mountain Meadows Massacre"
  
  Dates: 2005
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 15
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Will Bagley, "Rescue of the Mountain Meadows Orphans"
  
  Dates: 2005
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 16
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Shannon A. Novak and Lars Rodseth, "Remembering Mountain Meadows: Collective Violence and the Manipulation of Social Boundaries"
  
  Dates: 2006
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 17
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Larry Coates, "Memorial Service: September 11, 2007-Mountain Meadows, Utah"
  
  Dates: 2007
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 18
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Will Bagley, "Big Trouble: The Legacy of Mountain Meadows"
  
  Dates: 2007
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 19
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: "Children of the Massacre May Meet in Reunion"
  
  Dates: 1893
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 20
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Newspaper Articles regarding the Monument and the Massacre
  
  Dates: 1955-2003
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 21
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Harrison Daily Times
  
  Dates: 1989-1991
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 22
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
  
  Dates: 1999-2001
  
  Container: Box 3, Folder 23
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Salt Lake Tribune
  
  Dates: 1990-2000
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Salt Lake Tribune
  
  Dates: 2000-2002
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Deseret News
  
  Dates: 1996-2001
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Morris A. Shirts, "The Mountain Meadow Massacre"
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: General Materials regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre
  
  Dates: 1955-1961
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 5
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Burr Fancher, "Captain James Lynch and the Mountain Meadows Massacre"
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 6
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Captain John Twitty Baker
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 7
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Mike Johnson, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre"
  
  Dates: 1999
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 8
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: List of Research Materials Donated to the University of Utah Library
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 9
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: General Materials
  
  This folder contains the April 2012 and June 2012 newsletters, the California Territorial Quarterly featuring articles regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a reproduction of a 1877 publication "History of the Mounatin Meadows Massacre, or the butchery in cold blood of 134 men, women and children by Mormons and Indians, September, 1857, also a full and complete account of the trial, confession and execution of John D. Lee, the leader of the murderers," and a CD containing bibliographical information and references.
  
  Dates: 1877; 2011-2012
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 10
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials
- Description: Foundation Newsletters and Sticker
  
  This folder contains volume 53-54 of the newsletter, Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation, Inc.
  
  Dates: 2012-2013
  
  Container: Box 4, Folder 11
  
  Location: Newspaper Articles and General Materials

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Subject Terms

Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857

Corporate Names

Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation

Form or Genre Terms

Articles
Essays

Mountain Meadows Monument Foundation records, 1850-2012

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Historical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Separated Materials

Detailed Description of the Collection

Newsletters, Documents and Newspaper Articles

Documents and Monograph Accounts

Newspaper Articles and General Materials

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Corporate Names

Form or Genre Terms