decision of a few local leaders? Maybe there’s more than that, but that’s the argument I’ve heard.

The church contends he did not. There’s no written proof of it.

Many others say he did order it. Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s how the show portrays it.

Regardless. It did happen. Now, perhaps in the context of the time it was just another of these bloody massacre in the Wild West. I mean, hundreds of Native Americans were routinely gathered up and slaughtered in this time period.

But even it’s blown up as a way to attack the church today, best to just own it. Really tragic. But certainly it was out of the norm for LDS settlers.