John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat (1962)

by Juanita Brooks

Series: Western Experience Series, Western Frontiersmen (9)

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This classic biography is now in its fourth USU Press printing. It is unparalleled in providing a thorough and accurate account of John D. Lee's involvement in the tragic 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.

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Good biography of man blamed entirely for Mountain Meadows massacre. (

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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |

have read it several times. juanita books was a neighbor of ours when we lived in the east 27th ward.

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1962

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This classic biography is now in its fourth USU Press printing. It is unparalleled in providing a thorough and accurate account of John D. Lee's involvement in the tragic 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.

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