<p>On the warm spring day of May 3, 1853, when Captain John Williams Gunnison first received his assignment to lead a railroad survey party west, he was exuberant and filled with enthusiasm. At that moment, he could not have imagined his own violent and tragic death in the wastelands of Utah's Great Basin. Yet, in the chill dawn of October 26, 1853, Captain Gunnison and his party were mysteriously and brutally murdered. For one hundred and forty years, the tragedy of the murder of the young army engineer, whom the Mormons referred to as their "much esteemed, though distant, learned, very polite, and unsolicited chronicler," was left as unexplored as the site of his death near the Sevier River. Now, Dr Fielding reveals and unravels the twisting and long-buried course of events, showing how the murder of the Gunnison survey party led inexorably to the infamous Massacre at Mountain Meadows, to the Utah Expedition, and to a generation of conflict between the Mormons and the United States Government.</p>

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The Unsolicited Chronicler: An Account of the Gunnison Massacre Its Causes and Consequences Utah Territory, 1847-1859/a Narrative History