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Show CHAPTER IV: THE CRISIS 1. Woodruff, Diary, 1 January 1858. 2. Deseret News, 6 January I858, p. 349. The eastern mail had been cut off the previous summer, and all mail came through California. 3. Journal History, 27 December 1857, p. 9« 4. Deseret News, 6 January 1858, p. 349. The News of 27 January 1858 republished the article. 5. John D. Lee, A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876, 2 vols, ed. Juanita Brooks and Robert Glass Cleland (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1955), 1:141. 6. Woodruff, Diary, 3 January 1858. 7. John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled or the Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee (St. Louis: Bryan Brand & Co., I877), p. 219. 8. Quoted in Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Maadows Massacre, 2nd ed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970), pp. 146-47- 9. Wall's report in Journal History, 12 December I857, pp. 1-8; also see Kate B. Carte, comp., Heart Throbs of the West, 12 vols. (Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1939-51), 6:451. 10. Journal History, 12 December 1857, P« 6. U. Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.), 1 April I858, p. [3], declared: "The animals [camels] are now on their return to the Colorado River for the purpose of carrying provisions to Lt. Beale and the military escort, who, it is conjectured, will penetrate from thence, as far as possible into the Mormon country." The Missouri Republican (St. Louis), 9 April 1858, cited in Roberts, Comprehensive History, 4:371, published a letter from Beale to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War: "In a previous letter I informed you that I had sent tbe 339 |
