In a "Mormon Land" podcast, a historian and a tribal leader discuss the facts and fiction in "American Primeval" ...

Many places are sacred to the Paiute tribe, like the mysterious Mojave landmark, Devil’s Hole, which descends deep into ...

Daniel Wells of the Nauvoo Legion, ordering a militia to "exterminate" any Indigenous person in the Utah Valley who shows any ...

Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

Young’s fear was not unfounded. Missouri militiamen had massacred a group of Mormon settlers in Missouri in the late 1830s and violently driven the Mormons from that state. In 1844, Young’s ...

It’s about different disparate groups — different Native American tribes, different Mormon settlers, pioneers, mountain men, and U.S. military — all of whom were struggling to survive.

This atrocity unfolded against the backdrop of the Utah war, a conflict between Mormon settlers and the US government. Heightened tensions, fuelled by paranoia about federal persecution and anti ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken issue with a Netflix series it calls "dangerously misleading." ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" starring Taylor Kitsch is partly inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.

pioneers heading west and the newly powerful Mormon church, its Nauvoo militia and Young. The series depicts the Mountain Meadows massacre during the 1857-58 Utah War. In the massacre, settlers of ...