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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

“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.