MormonTimes.com: Massacre book 'a big bestseller'
'Massacre at Mountain Meadows' now on 5th printing, with more expected
"Where are our books? Where are our books? We need books now!" are some of the comments in anxious calls to the press. "We couldn't print them fast enough," said Susan Fensten, a publicist for Oxford University Press.
"We couldn't print them fast enough," said Susan Fensten, a publicist for Oxford University Press.
One of the authors, Ronald W. Walker, said he was pleased and delighted how well the book has been selling. He speculated that the popularity of the book has to do with the approach he and his co-authors, Richard E. Turley and Glen M. Leonard, took to the subject of one of the darkest incidents in Mormon history.
"I think there's a real hunger out there for honesty and reliability," Walker said. "We went to enormous lengths to get the story right and did a lot of research."
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