More than 120 pioneers were killed in a shocking act of betrayal on their journey west. We visited the Mountain Meadows Massacre site to honor the victims and trace the story that history nearly ...

The pages on church finances, religion vs. violence and temples provide a broad look at important issues ranging from the use ...

On September 11, 1857, the Baker-Fancher party was ambushed in southern Utah during a journey from Arkansas to California.

Dianna Gencarelli vividly remembers the day she found out about Mountain Meadows Massacre. She was 13 years old and standing in the kitchen asking her grandmother about her family. Her grandmother ...

The second storyline follows Abish Pratt (Saura Lightfoot-Leon), a young Mormon woman who — after surviving a militia attack reminiscent of the Mountain Meadows Massacre — is separated from ...

This historical fiction depicts the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, as well as broader hostilities between the US government and Mormons at Salt Lake City during the Utah War of 1857–58.

The show follows the events surrounding the real-life Mountain Meadows Massacre, a violent attack that led to the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train. The attack ...

The show depicts an event known as the “Mountain Meadows Massacre“ where local Latter-day Saint militiamen, aided by American Indian allies, massacred about 120 emigrants traveling by wagon to ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a brutal attack on more than a hundred emigrants en route to California in the 1850s. The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows ...

PETER BERG (DIRECTOR) We discovered the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which is something we knew a little bit about. Not a lot. That brought us into an interesting opportunity to explore Brigham ...

Furthermore, it will also surprise nearly every viewer that the slaughter carried out in the series is based on truth, known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and remains one of the darkest ...

The more we researched the Meadows Massacre, that took us down a Brigham Young rabbit hole and it was interesting because I had never thought of the Mormons as having an armed militia and being ...