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Much to the consternation of some, Brooks called Young "an accessory after the fact," a charge that rankled church leaders. "What raised the wrath of loyal
Mormons was the massive evidence she presented that Young's cover-up of the crime made him an accessory after the fact, and that he stage-managed
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and other church authorities did not specifically order the massacre, they did preach sermons and set up social conditions that made it possible." In Brooks' unflinching narrative, she painted the
Massacre as an overreaction by the Mormon militia forces, one that was a tragedy for all sides,
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and other Brooks allies had predicted, Brooks's scrupulously researched book proved a boon to the LDS church through her careful limning of the challenges facing the church in its earliest days, as well as showing the toll the
Massacre took on church members themselves. According to
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historian trained in historical methods, was discouraged from studying the incident, and she suffered some ostracism from fellow
Mormons after its publication. Her work was acclaimed by historians, however, leading to her recognition as an exemplary historian of the
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grant to study the
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was the first work to fully document Mormon involvement in the massacre. In the book, Brooks demonstrated convincingly that the Mormon militia was responsible for the massacre, and that
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to those killed. She was joined in her call for the monument by another descendant of Dudley
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