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September Dawn (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Emily Hudson is one of the main characters in this film. However, the Hudsons left the wagon train before it reached Utah.
  
  
• Nancy Dunlap (the "woman in pants who carries a gun") died in the massacre, not before. So did her husband, Lorenzo, who is said to have died before the movie's action takes place.
  
  
• All of the people in the wagon train were from Arkansas. If there were any Missourians in this train, they were not known to share the Arkansans' fate.
  
  
• There is a memorial dedicated to those who died in the massacre. It is in Washington County, Utah.
  
  
• In reality, Joseph Smith, Jr. had 24 wives. He and his first wife, Emma, had nine children: Alvin, who died shortly after birth, premature twins Thaddeus and Louisa, who only lived a few hours, Joseph and Julia, who were given to them to adopt after their own twins died, Joseph Smith III, Frederick Granger Williams Smith, Alexander Hale Smith, and David Hyrum Smith, born after Joseph's death. There is no evidence that he had children with any of his other wives.
  
  
• Brigham young had 27 wives. 16 of them gave birth to Young's 57 children.
  
  
• John D Lee had 19 wives and 67 children. At least eleven of his wives eventually left him.
  
  
• The execution of John D. Lee was actually quite accurate. He was the only participant in the massacre that was ever tried, and after two trials, he was convicted. The army took him out to the massacre sight on March 23, 1877 (nearly twenty years after the event occurred), made him dig his own grave, and then ordered a firing squad to execute him.
  
  
• There is evidence that twenty people may have survived the massacre, not including the 17 children that were spared intentionally.
  
  
• The remains of the victims were never buried. The ones who were closest to the nearby road were covered with whatever was nearby, but the coverings blew off and the remains were scattered by wolves and buzzards.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: Heard at the 1:11 mark in the movie, when a Native American brave is shot.
  
  

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