From the Back Cover:
“American Massacre brilliantly captures a forgotten episode in our country’s history. It is a fascinating story.”
--Howard Zinn
“With eloquence and grace, Sally Denton tells the story of a remarkable episode of bloodshed that remains highly controversial. Her book illuminates the disturbing meeting ground between religion and violence in American history.”
--T. J. Stiles
“From its first harrowing pages to the potentially explosive discovery described in the epilogue, American Massacre is hard to put down, a vivid accoun of persecution and paranoia, deceit and self-deception, cruelty and cover-up. Sally Denton expertly guides us along the twisting trail that leads from upstate New York in 1823 to the horror of Mountain Meadows, the most hideous example of the human cost exacted by religious fanaticism in American history until 9/11.”
--Geoffrey C. Ward
About the Author:
Sally Denton has been an award-winning investigative reporter in both print and television, having written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. She is the author of The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder, and, with Roger Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947—2000. She lives in the Southwest with her three sons.
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