"Where nothing is long ago."

I can't say I've been enjoying the Mountain Meadows Blogging that's been going on on the web. The Sunday School lessonbook, which I never read, or used when I taught the 9 year olds was boring. I had ten girls who were headed for the Ivy League, they could all read at three, and two hyperactive boys. So I ignored the boys and divided some condensed histories into the number of weeks in the year.

1857 was a long time ago. I can't figure out why the number of casualtiesis so low. I remember reading at BYU, in the stacks and at home in a sunny corner. I remember the number of casualties to have been 155. I think the descendents have counted the number of their
party, including the Missouri Wildcats, and maybe think the rest
didn't matter so much.

When the flesh had been cleaned from the bones, and at the request of the court, Jacob Hamblin exhumed and counted the bodies, then reinterred the bones in the Danish way. The bones are cleaned by time
and set off to the side, then the newly dead are buried in caskets.

I've never been a fan of prosteliting, and the current mess shows why--
we are living in a time when people honestly beleive that paradigms are
perfectly suitable substitutes for History.

How Americans viewed treated the Indigenous People was set in cement by the late 1850's. I seem to remember Cotton Mather going out with
the men of his congregation and killing 600 people in a single afternoon.

My hypothesis about how it all happened is this: Joseph Smith used
very light skinned bodyguards, Cherokees and warriors who were Celts
going back far enough that they were often light skinned and Hazel or Blue eyed. The British didn't want to take their Highland Scotts back to
Britain, so they left them behind. They went up into the Appalacians and married wives from the East Coast tribes.

I put two and two together, don't know whether I have come up with four. Our house reading material was World Book, Websters, the Documentary History of the Church, B.H. Roberts Comprehensive History
of the Church, (Both about 6-8 hefty volumes), and a 21 volume first edition of the Journal of Discourses. We had the Discourses of Orson
Pratt, and a few other queer as in odd books.

One of these was written by a man who went back to Illinois, Missouri, and out to California looking for his assasins. In particular, he was looking for information about how they died. They died of a very gruesome disease, which I picked up from being a Nuclear Downwinder
born a day after the Paperclippers' flash blindness test.

See "The Plutonium Files." if it's declassified this week. My Cherokee friend, the Grandson of a Shaman, described to me a means of introducing a mosquito or no see um's eggs into the bloodstream, killing the perpetrator within a few days, probably from dehydration,
but if they got M.E. as well, I've had that for 45 years, and the onset
is very painfull.

Why did the author of this book know to ask the question? M.E. is caused by a slow virus or retrovirus, much like Kuru. The suffering
from this form of execution could be made worse or lessened depending on the severity of the crime, and whether the victim was
in the same family or Village as the perpetrator. Women often practiced this grisly art, because the crimes were often against their sisters, neices, or daughters. My friend's Grandmother explained to him exactly
how, when and why it was done when he was about Fifteen.

I came across a Bible verse on a Chinese blog where Christians and practitioners of a Christian like Buddist religion are being mercilously
tortured. This form of Meditation is often used by the old, ill, or weak
and involves unimaginably hideous barbarism in Concentration Camps.
It is an old and academic form of practice so practitioners are often
academics or professionals.

Sorry that I don't have my sticks on me, but the verse said that by endurance and silence a Christian could attain a better resurrection.
I don't beleive this or think it is a good thing to beleive, but the Maritime Indians, Celts, and early Christians did beleive it.

This may come out more as those whose anscestors participated in or were victims of the Massacre begin to talk more about it. My former husband did not get sunburned, even when a small child and is totally
disinterested in both Geneology and History, but his Great-great grandfathers were Cherokee bodyguards of Joseph Smith and were
sworn to seek out and execute his assassins. I'm sure they took no pleasure in it, that was their way.

So my question, if anyone still knows, is how the Missouri and Arkensaw
Pioneers were related. There were the gang, probably traveling without
their families who were drunk, who may have known the exact nature of
crimes perpetrated on Mormon women and children, who threatened to
bring the whole nightmare back again.

I think these men traveled through Utah more safely than they might have elsewhere. Whether the Misourri Wild Cats or Wildcatters were guilty or not they said they were, they brandished and bragged, threatened and made sadistic threats--with the support of the US
Army, they had no fear.