{"title":"Barbara Jones Brown","description":"Barbara Jones Brown is the director of Signature Books Publishing and former executive director of the Mormon History Association. She also provided content editing for Massacre at Mountain Meadows. She holds an M.A. in American history from the University of Utah and a B.A. in journalism and English from Brigham Young University. While researching her genealogy after beginning work on Vengeance Is Mine, Brown discovered that, like the earlier Mountain Meadows Massacre historian, Juanita Brooks, she is a direct descendant of one of its perpetrators.","products":[{"product_id":"vengeance-is-mine-the-mountain-meadows-massacre-and-its-aftermath-hardcover","title":"Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eMassacre at Mountain Meadows\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 2008, \u003cem\u003eMassacre at Mountain Meadows\u003c\/em\u003e was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train in 1857. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of this atrocity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eVengeance Is Mine\u003c\/em\u003e documents southern Utah leaders' attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book examines the maneuvering of the defense and prosecution in Lee's two trials, the second ending in Lee's conviction. Turley and Brown explore the fraught relationship between Lee and church president Brigham Young, and assess what role, if any, Young played in the cover-up. And they trace the fates of the other perpetrators, including the harrowing end of Nephi Johnson, who screamed \"Blood! Blood! Blood!\" in his delirium as he was dying, more than sixty years after the massacre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurley and Brown also tell the story of the massacre's few survivors: seventeen children who witnessed the slaughter and eventually returned to Arkansas, where the ill-fated wagon train originated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eVengeance Is Mine \u003c\/em\u003ebrings the hitherto untold story of this shameful episode in Mormon and Utah history to its dramatic conclusion.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365578047711,"sku":"9780195397857","price":39.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EM49B5-fOq9780195397857.webp?v=1789066481"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/barbara-jones-brown.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}