The Last Orphan Escape Last Orphan Books Book

September 7-11, 1861. The Mountain Meadows Massacre.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.The Last Orphan books tell the fictional story of a little boy whose very existence could mean the end of Brigham Young and the entire Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and of the two women who have sworn on their lives to protect him.