John Doyle Lee, the only man executed for the slaughter of an emigrant train in southern Utah in 1857, tells his life: his youth, conversion, the Missouri and Illinois troubles, the trek west, his many plural marriages and his account of the massacre itself. Alfred Henry Lewis’s lurid introduction frames the confession as an attack on the Latter-day Saints.
An important primary source on a notorious crime, presented here in a hostile edition of 1905. Download the free EPUB.