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The Mountain Meadows Tumuli: Reassessing the Massacre Landscape
Everett Bassett
Relying on the earliest reports and sources, in 2014 Everett Bassett successfully identified two of the graves U.S. Army soldiers used in 1859 to inter the scattered remains of the victims of the Mountain Meadows massacre.
Everett Bassett has 35 years-experience in archaeology and has directed archeological projects in Great Britain, Australia, Egypt, Sudan, and throughout North America. He currently lives in San Francisco where he is a co-owner of Transcon Environmental, an environmental engineering concern. Everett has conducted extensive research in Utah and the American West. His projects have included: researching and recording over 3,000 historic mines for the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining, Abandoned Mines program; researching and excavating the Salt Lake City Block 49, Tooele, and Midvale pioneer cemeteries; recording and excavating the community of Hamblin, UT; and identifying and recording the Gila Trail in Arizona. In 2015 he successfully identified the Mountain Meadows massacre locations and the two mass graves constructed by the U.S. Army in 1859.
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