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.

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 ...

Historical Archaeology, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2003), pp. 85-108 (24 pages) In September 1857, some 120 men, women, and children on a wagon train bound for California were massacred in southwestern Utah. Who ...

In September 1857, more than 100 people on their way from Arkansas to California camped in southern Utah in a place called Mountain Meadows to rest their horses and livestock before pushing on toward ...

On his deathbed, Nephi Johnson muttered over and over, “Blood, blood, blood.” As a young man, Johnson had been among dozens of Latter-day Saints who executed nearly 100 members of two emigrant ...

In April 1857, near Harrison, 120 to 150 settlers started a journey toward the promise of a better life in California. Before they could reach their destination, a party of Mormons (known formally as ...

The first episode of the new Netflix series “American Primeval,” which premieres Thursday, depicts the horrific assault of Sept. 11. No, not the terror attacks ...

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 ...

Now we bring you a story about a site in southwest Utah that took 150 years to tell the truth. It's part of our series, "Off The Mark," about the nation's fascinating and sometimes completely wrong ...

On January 24, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, penned a statement condemning the Netflix series American Primeval. This historical ...