Comments on: The Last Conquistador http://grittv.org/2008/07/15/the-last-conquistador/ Cultivating a Better Conversation Sat, 14 May 2011 01:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: rdale http://grittv.org/2008/07/15/the-last-conquistador/comment-page-1/#comment-559 rdale Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:18 +0000 http://www.grittv.org/2008/07/15/the-last-conquistador/#comment-559 <p>A similar thing happened in Utah. A statue of John D. Lee, early Mormon pioneer, was commissioned by the city of St. George, Utah, the biggest city in the southern part of the state. A 7-foot bronze statue of Lee, by local sculptor Jerry Anderson, was completed and ready to be put in place in the city’s central historic square. However, Lee was also the only figure tried, convicted, and executed for the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre, on Sept. 11, 1858, in which over 120 emmigrants were murdered by Mormons and their bodies left to rot. As soon as the news came out about the statue, there was an outcry that resulted in a change’o'plans; the sculptor bought the statue back and now it’s being put in place in Washington City, Utah, a small town that Lee founded that is bascially a suburb of St. George.</p> <p>rdale</p> A similar thing happened in Utah. A statue of John D. Lee, early Mormon pioneer, was commissioned by the city of St. George, Utah, the biggest city in the southern part of the state. A 7-foot bronze statue of Lee, by local sculptor Jerry Anderson, was completed and ready to be put in place in the city’s central historic square. However, Lee was also the only figure tried, convicted, and executed for the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre, on Sept. 11, 1858, in which over 120 emmigrants were murdered by Mormons and their bodies left to rot. As soon as the news came out about the statue, there was an outcry that resulted in a change’o’plans; the sculptor bought the statue back and now it’s being put in place in Washington City, Utah, a small town that Lee founded that is bascially a suburb of St. George.

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