The Salt Lake Tribune is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Tribune is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a nonprofit corporation. The newspaper's motto is "Utah's Indep
The July 27, 2005, front page of The Salt Lake Tribune
Marquee of The Salt Lake Tribune on the Tribune Building in Downtown Salt Lake City
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southe
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…the Tribune was subsequently sold by AT&T to Denver, Colorado-based MediaNews Group in 2000. In 2000, the Tribune published a 3-part series on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, after a backhoe operator accidentally dug up previously-unknown remains while working on the 1999 Mountain Meadows Monument. The LDS Church's displeasure…
The 1999 burial site monument
Panorama of the area in 2009
Isaac C. Haight— Stake President, battalion commander, director of Deseret Iron Company.
Philip Klingensmith- a Bishop in the church and a private in the militia. Participated in the killings. After disaffiliation from the LDS Church he turned state's evidence against his fellow conspirators.