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Plot. The fictional love story between Emily Hudson, the daughter of the wagon train's pastor, and Jonathan Samuelson, the son of the local Mormon bishop, plays out against the build-up to the tragedy itself. The film begins with the deposition of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Aug 24, 2007 · September Dawn: Directed by Christopher Cain. With Terence Stamp, Trent Ford, Krisinda Cain, Shaun Johnston. A love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers and a renegade Mormon group.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Christopher Cain
- 2007-08-24
Aug 23, 2007 · On Sept. 11, 1857, at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a group of fanatic Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train of about 120 settlers passing through Utah on their way to California. Can we all agree that the date has no significance?
On Sept. 11, 1857, 120 California-bound settlers from Arkansas were slaughtered in the verdant high country south of Salt Lake City by a small group of Mormon inhabitants and a few Paiute...
Aug 24, 2007 · 'September Dawn' Jon Voight stars in a handsome but ham-fisted melodrama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Sept. 11, 1857 slaughter of California-bound pioneers by a group of Mormons....
- Bob Mondello
May 17, 2007 · It details the long covered-up massacre at Mountain Meadows, Utah, on September 7-11, 1857, where a group of Mormons murdered well over a hundred settlers traveling from Arkansas to California. The settlers stopped in southwest Utah to rest and resupply and the Mormons who lived there graciously allowed it.
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A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
