What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

Spoilers ahead for American Primeval. Netflix's newest Western series, American Primeval, has quickly become one of the ...

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

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

Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific war atrocity on Sept. 11, 1857, in a valley called Mountain Meadows (which, ...

Sweeping views, a loose association with historical events, and plenty of gore define Netflix's 'American Primeval.' ...

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 ...

That’s important to make that point. In general, what were relations like between the Mormon settlers and the Native Americans they displaced? Parry • Well, it’s kind of a roller coaster.

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 ...

Netflix's dark new Western series, "American Primeval," draws inspiration from a real-life American tragedy to depict the harsh landscape of the West in the 1800s. The six-episode limited series ...

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.