American Primeval recently premiered on Netflix. The series featured the character of Brigham Young, a controversial figure ...

Smith may have received a revelation on polygamy as early as 1831 ... When told he should practice plural marriage too, Brigham Young said, "It was the first time in my life that I desired ...

Opinion was divided (as it still is) as to whether Smith was a martyr for the faith he believed in or a dangerous and cynical fanatic whose propagation of polygamy was done for his own selfish and ...

Despite the claim to have given up polygamy, our church is still devoted ... the owner of a major LDS bookstore: I learned from [Brigham Young University professor M.] that [BYU professor of ...

Brigham Young was famous for his blue eyes and stare ... The whole thing about polygamy and monogamy and how that tied into the Mormon religion was stuff that I really needed to wrap my head ...

Mormon leader Brigham Young was appointed territorial governor ... "[We] were not nearly so much opposed to polygamy as we were to the political domination of the Church ...