Reply #60: OSO, I am a descendent of this man:

[kestrel91316]

William Adams Hickman, Chief of the Danites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Wild_Bill%22_Hickman

.......as are a couple million other folks, I suspect, lol. He had ten wives - I am descended from the first wife. He was head of the, ahem, "enforcement" arm of the early Mormon Church. Today they try to deny the Danites even existed, but I just ROFLMAO at that. My grandfather had personal discussions of his deeds with WAH's daughter, who was his grandmother.

In researching him in various published books and articles of the day, I have put together evidence (timeline and confirmed location and direction of travel, possession of property belonging to the pioneers, etc) that he and his men were definitely involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre and may in fact have been THE perpetrators. How d'ya like THEM apples??

The guy that took the fall for MMM and was executed probably got in the way of Brigham Young or somebody powerful and so they punished him by pointing the finger of blame at him - I think his name was Hamblin.