Produced by Bret Blakeslee THE MORMON MENACE BEING THE CONFESSION OF JOHN DOYLE LEE - DANITE AN OFFICIAL ASSASSIN OF THE MORMON CHURCH UNDER THE LATE BRIGHAM YOUNG INTRODUCTION By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS New York Home Protection Publishing Co. 156 Fifth Avenue Copyright, 1905, by A. B. NICHOLS All Rights Reserved electrotyped and printed by the Herald Company of Binghamtom CONTENTS (pages not numbered in text version) INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v CHAPTER I - THE STORMY YOUTH OF LEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 CHAPTER II - LEE BEGINS A CAREER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 CHAPTER III - LEE BECOMES A MORMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 CHAPTER IV - THE SAINTS BESET WITH TROUBLES. . . . . . . . . 29 CHAPTER V - THE MORMON WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CHAPTER VI - LEE LOCATES THE GARDEN OF EDEN. . . . . . . . . 45 CHAPTER VII - THE SAINTS GATHER AT NAUVOO. . . . . . . . . . 52 CHAPTER VIII - LEE AS A MISSIONARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 CHAPTER IX - MORMONISM AND ITS ORIGIN. . . . . . . . . . . . 67 CHAPTER X - LEE CASTS OUT DEVILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER XI - HOT FOR LEE IN TENNESSEE. . . . . . . . . . . . 78 CHAPTER XII - OF PECULIAR INTEREST IN NAUVOO . . . . . . . . 86 CHAPTER XIII - DEATH OF JOSEPH SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 CHAPTER XIV - THE DOCTRINE OF SEALING. . . . . . . . . . . . 99 CHAPTER XV - THE SAINTS TURN WESTWARD. . . . . . . . . . . .104 CHAPTER XVI - LEE GOES TO SANTA FE . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 CHAPTER XVII - LEE IS TREATED BADLY BY THE BRETHREN. . . . .119 CHAPTER XVIII - THE DANITE AND HIS DUTY. . . . . . . . . . .129 CHAPTER XIX - THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 CHAPTER XX - THE MUSTER OF THE DANITES . . . . . . . . . . .146 CHAPTER XXI - THE BLOOD FEAST OF THE DANITES . . . . . . . .151 CHAPTER XXII - THE DANITE CHIEF REPORTS TO BRIGHAM . . . . .157 CHAPTER XXIII - LEE NEARS THE END. . . . . . . . . . . . . .161 APPENDIX I - BLOOD ATONEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166 APPENDIX II - THE STORY OF LEE'S ARREST. . . . . . . . . . .168 APPENDIX III - DEATH OF JOHN DOYLE LEE . . . . . . . . . . .173 ILLUSTRATIONS (not included in text version) The Mountain Meadows ii The Danite 36 The Mormon Preacher 60 The Blood Atonement 138 John Doyle Lee 150 INTRODUCTION THE MORMON PURPOSE