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The Ballad of Juanita Brooks

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An intimate biography of Utah's foremost historian For nearly a century, the Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the American West's most carefully managed silences. Then Juanita Brooks told the truth. Born into the founding families of Mormonism, Brooks was a devout believer, mother, schoolteacher, folklorist, and historian. From her kitchen table in southern Utah's red rock desert, she pursued the truth about the 1857 massacre, tracking down confessions, diaries, and church records that powerful men hoped would remain buried. When her findings implicated Mormon leadership, she published them anyway, knowing it would cost her friendships, status, and peace. This new biography is a generous but critical portrait of a truth-teller who believed accountability was a form of devotion. Here we see Brooks writing from her lived experience, weaving her intellectual rigor with the intimate realities of belief, motherhood, bodily autonomy, and purity culture. Her story, urgently relevant, belongs not only to the academy but to the shared cultural imagination.
Lindsay Hansen Park is a writer, historian, filmmaker, executive director of the Sunstone Education Foundation, and host of the long running Year of Polygamy podcast. She has served as a historical consultant and producer on major film and television projects, including Under the Banner of Heaven.
"With a storyteller's flair and a scholar's rigor, Lindsay Hansen Park illuminates Brooks's courage in confronting institutional power, her groundbreaking contributions to Mormon history, and the personal sacrifices that shaped her legacy. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs alike, this compelling narrative is a celebration of resilience, integrity, and the enduring impact of one woman's determination to confront history's hardest truths."--Katie Ludlow Rich, co-author of Fifty Years of Exponent II
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