What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...
Brigham Young and violence: ‘Suffer wrong not do wrong’
Fundamentally, Brigham Young was a man of peace; if his tongue occasionally slipped, his actions did not, writes Latter-day ...
‘American Primeval’: How does the Netflix Brigham Young hold up to the real LDS prophet?
Audiences are devouring the grisly Netflix miniseries “American Primeval,” a work of historical fiction centered around the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormon militiamen in southwestern ...
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What the tired tropes of ‘American Primeval’ get wrong about Brigham Young, early Latter-day Saints
If you are looking ... Like other leaders of his day and our own day, Brigham Young sometimes used violent rhetoric. But his actions tell a different story. In winter 1838, while Joseph Smith ...