SOMEBODY STOLE THE PLAQUE

There is no signage remaining at the massacre site. It was so often vandalized by Mormon revisionists that the signs were removed and are now on display at the museum in Delta.

Hysterical Journey to Historic Places

August 28th 2017
GUNNISON MASSACRE Captain John Williams Gunnison, of the army topographic corps, was busily surveying a route along the 38th Parallel for the transcontinental railroad on October 26, 1853 when he stumbled in to the midst of The Walker War and got himself and most of his party slaughtered by some unruly Pahvants. It came down through history as the Gunnison Massacre. It wa ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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