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David Willardson
DAVID WILLARDSON, a graduate of BYU and the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, has won a number of national awards for his illustrations. He illustrates for the major recording studios and for many national magazines.
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The massacre of a group of immigrants at Mountain Meadows in 1857 is an important episode in Mormon history (discussed in the conversation with Juanita Brooks in this issue). The fact that the Mormons who committed this atrocity tried to cover it up by blaming it on the Indians, by pacts of secrecy and finally by making John D. Lee a scapegoat has echoes in recent American history. David Willardsons cover – using images of John D. Lee and the American Indian – is rich in symbolic and suggestive meaning – about stereotypes, scapegoats and secrecy; it also suggests that these are matters about which it is good to have a dialogue.
Photo courtesy of Utah Historical Society
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