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8 - Talking Heads and Other Specters of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

Christopher M. Stojanowski
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Arizona State University
William N. Duncan
Affiliation:
East Tennessee State University
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
, pp. 167 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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