September Dawn

September Dawn-Original Soundtrack by William Ross
$16.95
LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 UNITS BuySoundtrax Records announces the release of the September Dawn--Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by William Ross. The film, directed by Christopher Cain (Young Guns, Gone Fishing), is a Romeo and Juliet story set against the backdrop of the of the controversial real-life massacre of 120 men, women and children traveling through Utah. On September 11, 1857, in an unspoiled valley of the Utah territory and in the name of God, a 120 men women and children were viciously murdered, the first known act of religious terrorism on U.S. soil. Twenty years after the event, the adopted son of Mormon Church founder, Brigham Young, was executed for his role in the crime. But who ordered the massacre and why has always been hidden in a cloak of secrecy and conspiracy. Composer William Ross wrote the original score for September Dawn. Rossis a prolific, award winning composer and arranger whose work has spanned feature films, the recording industry and television. He has composed music for such films as Tuck Everlasting, My Dog Skip, Tin Cup, My Fellow Americans, and the IMAX film Young Black Stallion. Ross has orchestrated more than 100 films, including Matrix Reloaded, Forrest Gump, Stuart Little and The Father of the Bride. In 2007 he was Music Director for the 79th Academy Awards Special. "The art of film composing is to enhance the emotion of the images on the screen, said the film s director, Christopher Cain. Nobody does this better than Bill Ross."

Shiloh Falls
$14.99
With the likes of "Seraphim Falls" and the remake of "3:10 to Yuma", I had high hopes for this movie. DON'T EVER BOTHER!!! I don't know what most of the other people saw but they sure as heck was NOT watching this "junk'! Bad acting, actors and just about everything else. The location was ok and if you take away the actors you would have an awesome movie.
Great cover art, trailers and idea but the rest was just not good.
For all you die-hard western movie watchers, don't even bother watching this unless you have a high dose of great westerns to watch to help wash the stink off of you because this movie STINKS!!!!

September Dawn
$14.94
The events portrayed were reminders that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. People seeking truth in religion fail to recognize that truth is in your own heart. The Mormon bible depicts those truths that only were true to one man, Joseph Smith, not mankind.

Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
$24.95
Bagley doesn't know anything about this subject that hasn't been trodden and re-trodden by many before him.

It would be so great to have enough evidence to know what really happened. Train after train of immigrants passed through Mormon territory unmolested, both before and after the Fancher party.

Brigham Young has been put on trial here, without the opportunity to face his accuser. Certainly he had the weapon to do this thing--Mormons from the north to the south were at his beck and call and would do whatever he asked without question, including shut their traps about it after the fact.

Opportunity? There was the Fancher party, sitting ducks.

But motive is a thorny one. Brigham Young, having been through the Missouri and Illinois persecutions and murders at the leadership level, well understood the perils of a Mormon leader authorizing a 'hit' on anything or anyone. Joseph Smith was murdered for destroying a printing press. The Mormons were driven from Nauvoo for that act. Imagine if he'd authorized a killing.

Rumor and fear were everywhere during that summer and fall. It was said the United States government was marching the army west to kill the Mormons. There was general fear and trembling because of the terrible persecutions that had happened before.

I believe it is entirely possible that a local 'concerned citizens' mob, whipped up by the fear and sense of righteous loss that carried over from the tremendous hardships, suffering and death forced upon these very people only a few years before, would be stirred up to anger because of the rumors of action against a people that wished only to be left alone.

The Fancher party were the innocents caught in this swirling wind of fear, anger, rumor and retribution. All it took were some cruel offhand comments from some of the rougher men with the party, bragging about being in the mob that killed ol' Joe Smith, to take a region already atwitter with fear and set passions ablaze. They really didn't know what they were walking into.

Brigham, however, knew very well the fear and longing for justice felt among his people. You must understand that Salt Lake City is a very, very long ride from Mountain Meadows. Brigham couldn't just get John D. Lee on his cell phone and order a hit on the Fancher Party--or order that it be allowed safe passage.

One rider going at full speed, pony-express style with mount changes every 30 miles or so, can make the trip in a day. But this is not how it happened. By the time word got to Brigham Young about the situation down south, things had already progressed to a dangerous level.

By the time his messenger returned, the murders had been done. Could such a thing be done by Mormons without the acquiescence of their leaders? I contend that's the only way such a thing could have been done. Any conclusion to the contrary is driven by malice. Brigham Young was many things, including a racist indulging in the common racial prejudices of the day. But a mob boss ordering motiveless hits on passersby?

And they say the Mormons are nuts.