(May 6, 2015 at 10:36 am)vorlon13 Wrote: With just enough slip ups over the last nearly 200 years to make it really interesting for the Mormon apologists...Curious too, how many times over the decades an item that has turned up with uncertain provenance and the Mormon hierarchy declares it a forgery, only to later grudgingly admit...the disputed item was in fact genuine.
Or better, when an item like the White Salamander Letter they thought was genuine turned out to be a Mark Hoffman forgery pawned off to them in 1984.
The Mountain Meadows massacre was what got them in recent hot water after having lived down all the 19th century oddities. The Utah legislature initially moved to block the 1990 memorial on Dan Sill Hill by descendants of the Fancher-Baker wagon train party, but backed off as the issue exploded into the press and Salt Lake City began ramping up its bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics. They still hold to a claim that Brigham Young, 250 miles away from the massacre site, did not know about it and hence didn't give the order to do it. Whether he ordered it isn't clear, but he had to have known; the standoff itself lasted about five days and the arrival of the wagon train had been anticipated for weeks. However, no uncensored access to LDS archives has been allowed to historians of this event.
