"Vengeance Is Mine" Author Event @ Brigham City Library

Name: "Vengeance Is Mine" Author Event @ Brigham City Library
Start: 2025-10-20T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 26 E Forest St, Brigham City, UT 84302-2112, United States

Schedule

Mon, 20 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

26 E Forest St, Brigham City, UT 84302-2112, United States | Brigham City, UT

Historians Barbara Jones Brown and Richard E. Turley Jr. will speak about their acclaimed book, “Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath,” at the Brigham City Library on October 20th @ 7pm. Sales provided by 3 Goats Gruff.
The presentation will examine the fallout from the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train were killed by Mormon settlers in southern Utah. The book, published as a sequel to the 2008 volume “Massacre at Mountain Meadows,” delves into the cover-ups by local leaders, legal proceedings, and the execution of John D. Lee, the only person held criminally responsible.
Brown and Turley’s latest work has earned multiple honors, including the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History Award. The authors investigate contested claims about Brigham Young’s involvement, the lives of survivors, and the fates of those responsible, concluding one of the darkest chapters in Utah and Latter-day Saint history.