Editing John D. Lee (section)

=== Moving to the Seclusion of Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River  ===

For years after the massacre, Brigham Young took no action against Lee. However in the early 1870s, Young excommunicated Lee following which Lee moved to the Arizona frontier and operated the ferry crossing on the Colorado River, one of the most isolated locales in America. 

In summer 1872, Lee gave an interview to correspondent John Hanson Beadle which Beadle published in 1873 in ''The Undeveloped West, or Five Years in the Territories.'' It was later republished in Beadle's ''Western Wilds, and the Men Who Redeem Them.''