No. The 1847 pioneers, for instance, “did not pull handcarts into the Great Basin,” Reeve writes. “The handcart companies ...

US government officials were not recognized by the Mormons.” Sarah went on to explain how Brigham Young and his counselors attempted to bribe the judges and her husband with gold mines, women, and ...

As for the unhealthy concentration of the like-minded religious, that has been changing, slowly, because of a marked dilution of Utah’s LDS population. More and more areas are creeping toward being ...

Explore Pioneer Day history and discover how this Utah holiday began, honouring the 1847 arrival of Mormon pioneers in the ...

And that's precisely why we love it. For a city designed to be a haven of Mormon orthodoxy, SLC has gone rogue in the most glorious way. Sure, the LDS headquarters still looms large over Temple Square ...

Thoughts on Utah’s fateful rendezvous with history. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Joseph Smith, left, and Brigham Young, the first two leaders of the Latter-day Saint faith.

Concerned about the Mormons’ expanding theocracy in the West — Brigham Young was not only the president of the church but also Utah’s governor — President James Buchanan’s advisers urged ...

Turner • When the settlers in southern Utah sent a letter to Young, he told them explicitly to leave the wagon train alone. But his response arrives after everybody’s butchered.

American Primeval early on establishes the Mormons as the show's relentless antagonists, but it's only once Brigham Young is properly introduced, as both their political and religious leader, that ...

Sale price: $9,818,314. The explanation from the Mormon leaders: the time has passed when Brigham Young’s Latter-Day Saints need place their trust only in church-backed business institutions.

Utah’s 555,000 cattle and 1,646,000 sheep stem mostly from Mormon herds. Mormons built roads, farms, towns and temples across the West. In 100 years they increased from 20,000 to a million people.