Prologue: a picture of human suffering : Mountain Meadows, May 1859
Exiles from freedom : New York to the Iowa plains, 1830-1846
Peals of thunder : Utah, 1847-1857
No more submit to oppression : Silver Lake, July 24, 1857
Avoid all excitement, but be ready : Salt Lake City to Parowan, July 24-August 8, 1857
Preaching a military discourse : Southern Utah, August 9-21, 1857
A splendid train : Arkansas to Utah, emigration season, 1857
Restless and excited beings : Northern Utah, July-August 1857
We have better claim : Salt Lake to Fillmore, August 1857
Men have magnified a natural circumstance : Corn Creek to Parowan, late August-early September 1857
Make it an Indian massacre : Cedar City, July 24-September 5, 1857
A fearful responsibility : Cedar City and southwest, September 5-7, 1857
Finish his dirty job : Parowan to Mountain Meadows, September 7-10, 1857
Decoyed out and destroyed : Mountain Meadows, September 10-11, 1875
Too late to back water : Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, September 11-13, 1857
Epilogue: under sentence of death : Beaver to Mountain Meadows, March 20-23, 1877
Appendix A. The emigrants
Appendix B. The emigrants' property
Appendix C. The militiamen
