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Comment: Borderlands of Violence
- Journal of the Early Republic
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2017
- pp. 349-352
- 10.1353/jer.2017.0032
- Article
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The Mountain Meadows Massacre is not only a part of Mormon or Methodist history but of American history. Empire building, patriarchy, gender, and genocide all play a role. This comment on Gordon and Shipps' article asks whether it is a non-traditional narrative intended to challenge readers’ conceptions of historical writing.