September: Mormon militia led by John Lee and acting in tandem with a group of Native Americans attack a wagon train of settlers from Arkansas, slaughtering 120 men, women, and children in what ...

It was in Afton where the county’s first courthouse was built, which also functioned as a church and school. A two-story ...

In 1857, a Mormon army murdered over 120 settlers — and covered up their involvement for decades Warning: American Primeval ...

Smith was undaunted by this assault. But other Mormons in Missouri would soon face even greater violence. In the summer of 1833, settlers in Jackson County came under attack -- homes were shot up ...

White settlers sought work mining in Nevada’s mountains and hills, establishing towns in the remote locations from which they mined. As the work dried up, so did the town. The Mormon settlers ...

In 1876, the first Mormon settlers reached Sunset Crossing on the Little Colorado River, where they would establish four ...

The original Pilgrims and Utah’s Mormon settlers migrated for religious reasons, but they were exceptions; most American migrations have been driven by economics. Already by the mid-nineteenth ...

As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge a trail across unknown territory and ...

They team up against the local land baron who is trying to get rid of the Mormon settlers in a valley he wishes to own.