Larry Mcmurtry's Oh What A Slaughter Summary

In the planet, there are different kinds of people who have been co-existing together

over the years. The settlement of people in the world is such that different people who come

from one tribe tend to settle in a given region where they live together peacefully and carry

on with their daily day-to-day activities to improve their livelihoods. However, people from

different parts of the world develop some differences between them that result in conflicts

among them in some instances. Conflicts can be at different levels such as community

conflicts, national conflicts regional conflicts or even global conflicts. The effects of conflicts

among people are usually felt by each and every person in the community, and they are

usually

The book Oh What a Slaughter, written by Larry McMurtry is one of the written

documents that explains the true stories of the West most terrible massacres that ever

happened in the past. The book entails the mountain meadow massacre that happened back in

the year 1857. During this massacre, Mormons who are the members of the Church of Jesus

Christ of the later day of the saints engage in the killing of innocent people. The Mormons

The book explains vividly the slaughtering tragedy where the American and the Indians are

killing each other without mercy.

In this book, the author gives a clear thesis of the events that happen. He develops the

story well from the point where the families from Arkansas move through the Utah territory

during the Utah War conflict. They arrive at Salt Lake City and eventually stopping to rest at

mountain meadows where they are attacked by the militia leaders. The author tries to put the

bigger picture in the mind of the reader so that one can understand that the attacks are made

due to intruding in other people's