In the early fall of 1857, a wagon train of migrants from Arkansas to California was massacred in Mountain Meadows in what is now Zion National Park. The site was recognized as a national historic landmark on Saturday. The dedication seemingly closes a long-running dispute about the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the tragedy. So what is the story and what took so long to resolve it?
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Phil Bolinger, Pres, Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation
Richard Turley, co-author, Massacre at Mountain Meadows and Asst Church Historian and Recorder , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints