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.

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 ...

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 ...

On this week's "Mormon Land" episode, we discuss the pioneer-era southern Utah wine mission established by Brigham Young and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“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.

On this day in 1847, Latter-day Saint pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley. Utahns have been celebrating the day every since ...

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 ...

Salt Lake City is a town of delightful contradictions. Nestled between the towering Wasatch Mountains and the salty expanse of the Great Basin, it's a place where devout tradition and progressive ...

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.