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The Last Orphan Escape
By Jeffrey Lowder
On the orders of local Mormon church leaders, 120 children, women, and men—nearly all of the Fancher-Baker wagon train—were brutally murdered. Just eighteen souls were spared—children ranging in age from six years to nineteen months. Two years later, Army Major James Carleton was sent to return them to relatives in Arkansas; some historians believe one remained in Utah.
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