. Mormonism unveiled; including the remarkable life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop . ^^i ^^^ rUJ ,=^ tL^ The Mountain Meadows are situated in Washington County,Utah Territory, and between the seventh and eight parallels ofsouth latitude, from Salt Lake meridian. If the governmentsurvey was extended over that portion of Utah Territory, thenthe particular portion of the Meadows where the massacre wascommitted, would be within the limits of township thirty-seven,south of range twelve west. The monument, erected at the placeof the massacre, is three hundred and twenty miles south-westfr
. Mormonism unveiled; including the remarkable life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop . ^^i ^^^ rUJ ,=^ tL^ The Mountain Meadows are situated in Washington County,Utah Territory, and between the seventh and eight parallels ofsouth latitude, from Salt Lake meridian. If the governmentsurvey was extended over that portion of Utah Territory, thenthe particular portion of the Meadows where the massacre wascommitted, would be within the limits of township thirty-seven,south of range twelve west. The monument, erected at the placeof the massacre, is three hundred and twenty miles south-westfrom Salt Lake City, by road measure, as the road ran in1857. A line extended two hundred miles due south, from SaltLake City, and then run, at right angles, seventy-five miles due l-I o3 ?as- o•-J sr O oa a O ao a 5 3 oo CO. 4|*iMMWW| INTB OD UC TOE T. 35 west, would terminate at the monument. The Meadows arethirty-six miles south-west of Cedar City, where the massacrewas finally planned by Haight, Higby, Klingensmith and theMormon authorities then in council. At the time of the massacre, if the evidence of the vampireswho acted as Church slaves to secure the conviction of Lee areto be believed, the Meadows were covered with an abundance ofrank, nutritious grasses, and was a beautiful, smiling spot ofearth, inviting the beholder to rest and repose. Now it is an aiid waste, with but little vegetation upon itsplains. The springs, once furnishing a bounteous supply of wa-ter, are now comparatively dry and wasted away. The Mead-ows are such only in name; all that gave them beauty has longsince faded and gone. They lie there as one of the cursed spotsof earth; surrounded by desolation so intense that a fanatic,seeking death in order to escape from the troubles of this sin-cursed earth; seeking death in order t
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