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Red Water

Judith A. Freeman

New York: Pantheon Books, 2002

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Novel
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Told by three of his 19 wives, "Red Water" is the story of John D. Lee, complex and charismatic, generous and tortured, a member of Brigham Young's inner circle until he was deemed accountable for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which 120 emigrants were murdered by a group of Mormons and their Indian allies.

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