Mr. Robert D. Crockett is in fact a real estate and appellate lawyer. His recent focus has been in real estate and land use disputes. However he seems to hide his resume and I cannot find any cases that he has won. A person alleging to be Mr. Crockett emailed me advising me that his artical was copyrighted in an attempt to intimidate me into taking it down.
Mr. Crockett completely discredits Mr. Bagley using Juanita Brooks as one reference to do so. It looks as though he had better stick with real estate law because defending Brigham Young is only going be believed by the already duped ears of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Mr. Crockett very obviously fails to mention the fact that Fancher wagon train was one of the wealthiest wagon trains to travel through Utah worth over $70,000 dollars with some estimates going as high as $300,000. Well over one million dollars by today's standards. He also fails to mention that within months of the massacre Brigham Young was seen driving one of the fancy hand carved wagons, looted from the butchery, on the streets of Salt Lake City .
Mrs. Brooks does mention in her book that the tithing room at the Cedar City Ward was filled with the bounty from the Fancher Train. The blood soaked clothes and the rest of the booty was still in the tithing room when the investigators arrived.
The trial lawyer obviously avoids mentioning that six months after the Army built the Rock Cairn, President Brigham Young had it desecrated. He also avoids the issue of burial for the wagon train victims. What kind of a leader would allow the victims to lay out in the meadow naked (Mormons took all their clothing and jewelry) for years to be fodder for the vultures?
Blood Atonement and Holly Larceny? Mr. Crockett has a right to be proud and defend (or worship) his fearless early church leader Brigham Young. Prophet Young is in fact one of the main reasons the church is worth over 8 billion dollars today.
As you finish the article you will realize that according to Mr. Crockett it was not Jesus Christ who walked on water and had the fishermen bring in their nets full of fish but it was the all mighty himself "Brigham Young"!
Mr. Crockett's motives have got to be taken seriously. After all the LDS church's co-founder and his alma mater's namesake is being threatened by Will Bagley's and other author's books.
Will Bagley is a highly respected western history researcher and author. I will take his word any day over any trial or real estate lawyer. For instance Mr. Bagley went into President GORDON BITNER HINCKLEY office and asked for the records in the first presidency office, regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre. He was refused! To me and to any reasonable and prudent person this would be an indication that the Mormon Church has something to hide!
Mr. Bagley's book “Blood of the Prophets” sold more books per capita in Salt Lake City , Utah , than any other large city in the USA . Is that why the LDS hardliners such as Mr. Crockett are always trying to discredit Will Bagley's work?