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

Pioneer Day, also known as Pioneers Day, is a significant Utah state holiday celebrated on July 24. This day commemorates the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, honoring ...

Whenever I see the 7-foot bronze likeness of Brigham Young standing resolute on the lawn of Provo City Library at Academy ...

Brigham Young’s southern Utah wine mission fueled LDS profits, prophecy and alcoholism The Word of Wisdom wasn’t the same back then. Members not only consumed wine but also manufactured it.

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

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 ...

Concerned about the Mormons’ expanding theocracy in the West — Brigham Young was not only the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but also Utah’s governor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We don’t apologize for it, but we do offer some context for how tensions got so high.” Brigham Young, the then leader of the Mormon Church, is played by Kim Coates in American Primeval.