What are the details behind the report that Mormon settlers attacked a wagon train in southern Utah?
MK’s answer does give some information about what led up to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but it also leaves out quite a few details. For one thing, he only mentioned that this occurred during the Utah War. Because of this, the settlers in Utah were not selling supplies to wagon trains passing through the territory because they were hoarding their supplies against the possibility of actual fighting when the Army arrived. The wagon trains had come to depend on being able to resupply in Utah. So, the members of this wagon train were understandably upset when they found out that they couldn’t. Second, MK mentions that the train started from Arkansas. However, he did not mention that a large part of the train was from Missouri. There was a lot of bad blood between Missouri and the Latter-day Saints. The people of Missouri drove the Saints from several different communities before they were actually driven from the state entirely. Each time they were driven out was in the midst of winter w
