The Ballad of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Volume

18

Issue

2

Publication Date

4-1-1959

First Page

169

Last Page

172

Abstract

The Ballad of the "Mountain Meadows Massacre."-A new version of the ballad of the Mountain Meadows Massacre came to my attention in the spring of 1954, in the little southern Utah town of Blanding. With a great deal of prodding I succeeded in getting a rancher, a lifelong inhabitant of Blanding, to sing me the version which he remembered his father singing. He refused, however, to let me use his name for fear of jeopardizing his status in the community. Frequent requests to use his name have been turned down, and the task has been, from a scholarly point of view, to find someone else who has heard the ballad in this form.

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