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With bounty hunters hot on her trail, Sara hires a taciturn stranger named Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) to guide them to safety, which proves elusive in a region where the Army, Native Americans, Mormon militiamen and other settlers are locked in a battle for control.
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
At the very least, going public could make militiamen more suspicious of each other.
—Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
Between August 2018 and June 2020, when the Ebola epidemic was finally declared over, some militiamen and members of the government security forces stoked violence and instability so that the disease would continue to spread and the international aid agencies would continue to pay them.
—Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
At the very least, going public could make militiamen more suspicious of each other.
—Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
Between August 2018 and June 2020, when the Ebola epidemic was finally declared over, some militiamen and members of the government security forces stoked violence and instability so that the disease would continue to spread and the international aid agencies would continue to pay them.
—Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
When a wagon train of emigrants traveling from Arkansas to California passed through the area, Mormon militiamen surrounded the group and brutally slaughtered more than 100 men, women, and children.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Militiaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/militiaman. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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militiaman
noun
mi·li·tia·man
mə-ˈlish-ə-mən 
: a member of a militia
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