‘American Primeval’ and the Utah War — a historian’s take on the real men, real militias and real massacres
Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific war atrocity on Sept. 11, 1857, in a valley called Mountain Meadows (which, ...
What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...
Brigham Young and violence: ‘Suffer wrong not do wrong’
Fundamentally, Brigham Young was a man of peace; if his tongue occasionally slipped, his actions did not, writes Latter-day ...
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When the Utah pioneers killed and decapitated their Indigenous neighbors
Daniel Wells of the Nauvoo Legion, ordering a militia to "exterminate" any Indigenous person in the Utah Valley who shows any ...
‘American Primeval’: How does the Netflix Brigham Young hold up to the real LDS prophet?
Audiences are devouring the grisly Netflix miniseries “ American Primeval ,” a work of historical fiction centered around the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormon militiamen in southwestern ...
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American Primeval and the bloody truth about the Mormon massacre of 1857
Brigham Young’s role in the Mountain ... the 35 miles back to Cedar City, then a small Utah settlement known as Fort Cedar, and avoid Mormon territory from then on. They were escorted by armed ...
Mormon church responds to 'deceptive' depiction in Netflix's show 'American Primeval'
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has taken issue with a Netflix series it calls "dangerously misleading." ...
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Who Is Zac Affleck? Ben Affleck’s Relative Stars in Hulu’s ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’
Discover Zac Affleck, Ben Affleck’s cousin, as he stars in Hulu's 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.' Learn about his family ...