In 1857, a Mormon army murdered over 120 settlers — and covered up their involvement for decades Warning: American Primeval spoilers ahead! The only thing more horrific than the violent story of ...

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.

University of Utah film professor Brian Patrick spent six years making a documentary about the Mountain Meadows massacre. It won buckets of awards and was roundly praised for painstaking research and ...

Americans can learn valuable 21st-century lessons by studying a 19th-century crime, historian Richard E. Turley Jr. says. He outlined "Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre" during ...

More than a hundred Arkansans were killed on Sept. 11, 1857, in what is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.In early 1857, a wagon train left Northwest Arkansas and headed west, bound for ...

Heroes are in short supply in the Western hellscape painted by “American Primeval.” Many have recently commented on the wild historical inaccuracies of which the Netflix miniseries is guilty. I ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" is inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre is depicted in episode 1 and is the inciting incident for the main characters' journey. The ...

For years, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and descendants of the Mountain Meadows Massacre were adversaries. Those living in Utah didn't want to discuss the crime -- or ...

In the 1890's historian Andrew Jenson conducted oral interviews with people who had been involved with the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and a decade or so later, attorney David H. Morris collected sworn ...

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 ...