Mountain Meadow Massacre

So I just finished reading Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven which was a tremendous book. That completes my list of his books. I have read them all now. I just love Krakauer. I read Into The Wild for a high school American lit class that I was teaching, and I was hooked.The book is not really about the massacre that occurred Sept. 11, 1857. It is about two fundamentalist Mormons who murder their sister-in-law. However, in the course of the book Krakauer address numerous controversial historical events related to the Mormon church. It was a VERY enlightening book. One of the events discussed is the Mountain Meadows Massacre.After reading his brief synopsis and commentary from Under the Banner of Heaven, I decided to do some additional reading elsewhere on the subject. I turned to Larry McMurtry's Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West. I figured that he would know. He is another author who walks on water for me, Lonesome Dove and all...And he did. He has an entire chapter devoted to the event. Even more enlightening.So then, I am watching the news. I think it was CNN, but I really can't remember. I try not to watch the news. It's like watching a train wreck. They are doing a story about a monument there in the meadow. Then, lo and behold, I receive my coveted periodical in the mail, True West Magazine. I cannot recommend this magazine highly enough. I truly LOVE reading it. I skip all the way back up the driveway when I retrieve it from the mail. In this month's issue, Johnny D. Boggs writes an article about the seemingly forgotten event. Is this a conspiracy? Did the trilateral commission meet this month and discuss it? I am hardly a conspiracy person. I suppose that once I read the first little bit about it, I just became more conscience of it in reading. Nonetheless, I will not be voting for Mitt Romney for president.