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The film September Dawn purports to tell the story of the Mountain Meadows massacre of September 11, 1857, in which Mormon militiamen slaughtered over 120 people on a California-bound wagon train. It pins the blame on Brigham Young, Mormonism's prophet at the time: a contested point, to put it mildly. Hollywood doesn't often visit second-order events in American history (the Whiskey Rebellion? the Haymarket bombing?) unless it has an ax to grind. The ax of ...