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agreed on the grievances they perceived in the company that had passed the previous
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the embattled train. For reasons still unclear, the militia used a subterfuge of offering safe passage to the emigrants in exchange for the emigrants' disarming and turning their cattle over to the
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That evening, the extended families making the Baker-Fancher train set up their camp in
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them) from the LDS Church in 1870. By 1874, Haight and eight others (John D. Lee, John M. Higbee, William H. Dame, Philip
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Arizona. He remained a fugitive from federal authorities for the rest of his life. A reward of $ 500 each was posted for the capture of Haight, Higbee and Stewart. Only John D. Lee ever stood trial. Lee was convicted and executed by firing squad on March 23, 1877.
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