Frank Kirkman's Mountain Meadows Massacre Site
Mormon Shooters and Clubbers
Higbee gave the orders to kill them all.
"Higbee, I wouldn't do this to you," a wounded apostate pleaded with the man he recognized as a Cedar City Elder. "You would have done the same to me or just as bad," Higbee reportedly said before cutting the man's throat.
- AMERICAN MASSACRE by Sally Denton
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Major John H. Higbee
Major in the Iron militia and the first counselor to Isaac Haight.
The man who ordered that the massacre to begin.
List of Victims killed by the above and other Mormon Participants | Family Photo