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 ...

In 1857, a wagon train of 137 men, women, and children was slaughtered in the Utah Territory by Mormon militia and their Native allies in what would become one of the darkest and most controversial ...

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 ...

It’s bleak. It’s bloody. It’s barbaric. It’s also the No. 1 TV show on Netflix. But what millions of viewers may misunderstand about “American Primeval” is that it is fictional. While the six-part ...

Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah by Mormon ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The show's depiction of hood-wearing, sinister Mormons slaughtering emigrants, US Army troops and Shoshone people all within a few days is a sensationalized fabrication intended to 'entertain.

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Prologue: Crime meets punishment -- Introduction: A Mormon massacre -- Chapter One. Mormon savagery: murder an' massacretion -- Chapter Two. Circumscribing civilization: the white hellhounds -- ...

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 ...

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 ...