The infamous and inexcusable Mountain Meadows Massacre lives on as the bloodiest stain on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The 2008 book “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” ...

On his deathbed, Nephi Johnson muttered over and over, “Blood, blood, blood.” As a young man, Johnson had been among dozens of Latter-day Saints who executed nearly 100 members of two emigrant ...

Netflix‘s new western show American Primeval takes place in 1857 Utah Territory. We’re still four years out from the American Civil War and it won’t be another forty two years until Utah officially ...

Everyone knows about the events of 9/11. But few are aware that, a century and a half before, September 11 was associated with a ghastly act of violence that was similarly driven by religious zealotry ...

At over 11 million members, The Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormons, is one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world. It was founded by Joseph Smith but ...

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar. The massacre took place on Sept. 11, 1857, in Utah Territory.

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s. The Mountain Meadows ...

The date is etched in blood in Utah and Mormon church history and, on a more intimate level, the family trees of people like Karen Maxwell, a mother of eight and choir teacher from Salt Lake City. On ...

The Washington Post published a story last night examining a massacre carried out by Mormons nearly 200 years ago, and examines whether or not it will affect Mitt Romney’s support in the deep South.

Warning: American Primeval spoilers ahead! The only thing more horrific than the violent story of American Primeval is that it’s based on true events. A dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows ...