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View No. 2: Massacre Site:
Travelers entered Mountain Meadows from the north crossed the rim of the basin near the location seen through the viewer on your right. Pack trains stayed to the far (west) side of the valley, buy wagons chose a less marshy route nearer this side. Most of the Baker-Fancher Party were killed on September 11, 1857, as they were being escorted out of the valley heading north. The viewer locates the approximate site of the massacre and of an 1859 stone monument marking one of the burial sites. |