Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

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” ...

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.

The first episode of the new Netflix series “American Primeval,” which premieres Thursday, depicts the horrific assault of ...

(KUTV) There may be more details than originally thought in one of the bloodiest and darkest chapters in Utah's history. A California archaeologist claims he has found two additional graves related to ...

Mountain Meadows • After 160 years buried in a museum collection, the skull of one the Mountain Meadows Massacre’s youngest victims was laid to rest Saturday in a song-filled ceremony that honored all ...

When I stepped into a Sierra Nevada meadow over 25 years ago, I was struck by the diversity of life, the hub of biological activity — full of birds, frogs, fish and plants. As a wildlife ecologist, I ...

Kathleen Flake is a religious historian and author of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Read the full interview » Mountain Meadows may be ...

LITTLE ROCK — IT'S BEEN 150 years since the massacre at Mountain Meadows in Utah. A century and a half later, the circumstances surrounding that mass murder are still debated. Clio, muse of history, ...