The Mountain Meadows Massacre, as it is known, occurred on Sept. 11, 1857, and was the first known act of religious terrorism on U.S. soil. A group of Mormons, many disguised as Paiute Indians slaughtered all but 17 small children on a wagon train of nearly 140 men, women and children traveling through Utah on its way to California. One man, the adopted son of Mormon leader Brigham Young, was eventually executed for the crime--20 years after the event. Hundreds of direct descendants of the massacre still assert that the iconic Brigham Young had complicity in the massacre, a view denied by the Mormon Church, even today.
Production September Dawn; Voice Pictures [ca];
Cast Names Terence Stamp; Jon Voight; Trent Ford; Krisinda Cain; Shaun Johnston; Jon Gries; Lolita Davidovich; Taylor Handley; Daniel Libman; Tamara Hope; Barbara Gates Wilson; Huntley Ritter; Dean Cain; Ron Webber; Gary Lauder; Peter Skagen; Chad Nobert; Geoff Erwin; Marty Antonini; Tracey Woolsey; Jack Alma; Sage Woolsey; Morris Birdyellowhead; Carter Burns; Tom Carey; Hal Kerbes; David Cowley; Lyle Edge; Patrick Richards; Lindsay Burns; Stacey Zurburg; Pete Seadon; Gillian Carfra; Christy Greene; Sean Anthony Olsen; Lloyd Jacobson;