Blood of the Prophets

Blood of the Prophets

"Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows" (2002) by Will Bagley is an award-winning history of the Mountain Meadows massacre. The work updated Juanita Brooks' seminal history of the topic, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre", and has been described as "the definitive work" on the topic.Jon Krakauer, "" (Doubleday, 2003), p.214, footnote.]

Editions

* 2002: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press.

Awards

* Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Competition Publication Prize
* Western Writers of America’s Spur Award
* Denver Public Library’s Caroline Bancroft History Prize
* Westerners International’s Best Book Award, the John Whitmer Historical Association’s Smith-Petit Best Book Award
* Western History Association’s John W. Caughey Prize for the year’s most distinguished book on the history of the American West.

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