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(0)Sally Denton
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Language
English
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Description
"A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of the La Mora and LeBaron communities-fundamentalist Mormons...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"The author?herself of Mormon descent?first traces the extraordinary emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century intrigues and tensions between their leaders and the U.S. government, fueled by the Mormons? zealotry and exclusionary practices. We see how by 1857 they were unique as a religious group in ruling an entire American territory, Utah, and commanding their own exclusive government and army. Denton makes clear that in the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and death of Drew Thornton, an ex-narcotics officer and leader of a world drug orgranization with ties to Kentucky's state government and national law enforcement, and detective Ralph Ross's long time pursuit of Thornton
