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Show New Book Deals With Mountain Meadows Massacre The many volumes which have been written on the Mountain Meadows Massacre have generally gener-ally been biased as a result of prejudice or as an effort to make the writing sensationally profitable. profit-able. The "Mountain Meadows Massacre", Mas-sacre", just off the press, is free from bias and sensationalism. Written by Mrs. Juanita Brooks, well-known Utah writer, and published by Stanford University Press, the new book represents exhaustive research and sifting of old and new materials. Source materials together with scholarly presentation give promise pro-mise that the book will be considered con-sidered the definitive work on this controversial subject. Particularly Parti-cularly valuable is the over all picture presented which relates the massacre on the Old Spanish Trail to the so-called "Utah war". Altogether, the book is an enlightening en-lightening chapter on mob psychology. |