Word: fancher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bloody moments. Mormons were slaughtered in Illinois and persecuted elsewhere. But it was some 60 Mormons disguised as Indians who, in September 1857, committed the Mountain Meadows Massacre. With the help of 300 Indians, the Mormons killed more than 120 men, women and children in the Fancher party that was passing through Utah on the way to California. It was, says Historian William Wise, "the logical and culminating act of a society whose leaders believed themselves superior to the rest of mankind and who maintained that their own ecclesiastical laws took precedence over the laws of their country...
...Eastchester School, Elizabeth Justice, Cheryl Feldman, Patricia van Buskirk and Laura Campo, are the scheming debutantes who amuse themselves with Jane Austen novels, croquet and garden parties while all the time secretly wishing for men. Their hopes are answered with the four forest rangers, Josh Goldhaber, Kent Griswold, Mike Fancher and Jon Weinberg. The rangers try to come across as boyish Keystone Kops, which is fine, but their image would be more effective if they were all clean-shaven...