Everyone knows about the events of 9/11. But few are aware that, a century and a half before, September 11 was associated with a ghastly act of violence that was similarly driven by religious zealotry ...

Warning: American Primeval spoilers ahead! The only thing more horrific than the violent story of American Primeval is that it’s based on true events. A dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows ...

It’s bleak. It’s bloody. It’s barbaric. It’s also the No. 1 TV show on Netflix. But what millions of viewers may misunderstand about “American Primeval” is that it is fictional. While the six-part ...

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar. The massacre took place on Sept. 11, 1857, in Utah Territory.

The latest in our series Off the Mark, about historical markers, examines the site of a horrific massacre in Utah, where it took 150 years for the signage to tell the truth about what happened. Now we ...

Americans can learn valuable 21st-century lessons by studying a 19th-century crime, historian Richard E. Turley Jr. says. He outlined "Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre" during ...

St. George • Many experts agree that four mass burial sites are the final resting places of most members of a California-bound emigrant wagon train from Arkansas who were slaughtered in 1857 by Latter ...

More than a hundred Arkansans were killed on Sept. 11, 1857, in what is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.In early 1857, a wagon train left Northwest Arkansas and headed west, bound for ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s. The Mountain Meadows ...

More than a hundred Arkansans were killed on Sept. 11, 1857, in what is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In early 1857, a wagon train left Northwest Arkansas and headed west, bound for ...