It tells how more than 120 pioneers, families traveling from Arkansas to California in 1857, were attacked and slaughtered by Mormons at Mountain Meadows, a gr***y oasis in southern Utah.
Most of the victims, which included infants in their mothers' arms, were executed after the travelers surrendered their weapons.
"One reason so few people know about it is that it was very effectively covered up by the Mormon church," Hutton said. "Another reason is nobody in this country likes to criticize religious organizations. It makes people nervous."
Santa Fe resident and former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, great-great-grandson of the only person convicted in the killings, appears in "Mountain M***acre."
So does Ferenc "Frank" Szasz, a UNM professor whose specialty is history of American religion.
"Frank calls the m***acre the greatest act of religious violence on American soil up until the Sept. 11 (2001) terrorist attacks," Hutton said.
As cruel coincidence would have it, the Mountain Meadows executions happened on Sept. 11, 1857.
tie one hand behind your back, oh lets make it two!