With Days of ’47, one of Utah’s biggest Pioneer Day celebrations, around the corner, many people have been wondering what it ...

The Nauvoo Historical Society held its quarterly public meeting at the Nauvoo City Center Wednesday evening, May 28, drawing about 31 residents eager to hear from two of the city’s former mayors. The ...

YOUNG JOE SMITH ASSUMING POWER BRIGHAM YOUNG TO BE DEPOSED. Share full article. May 4, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 4, 1860, Page 5 ...

Nauvoo provides a case study of how Brigham Young personally responded when faced with potential violence. For a time following the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, the Saints in Nauvoo ...

Visit Brigham Young and the Brigham Young Cemetery and Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument. ... The pioneer trail is no small feat. Young directed the migration of sixteen thousand pioneers from Nauvoo ...

Netflix's new historical fiction series "American Primeval" is coming under fire for its depiction of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and leader Brigham Young.The Mormon church ...

Young and his followers resisted, with the assistance of local militia the Nauvoo Legion. ... Brigham Young isn't the only character in American Primeval that's based on a real-life person.

Young was officially selected as the President of the Latter-day Saints in 1848. After repeated conflicts in Nauvoo, Young led the LDS church to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, which at the time was ...

Brigham Young doesn’t die in American Primeval and with good reason. In real life, Young wouldn’t perish until 1877. That’s a good twenty years after the events of the Netflix show.

Of course, Brigham Young isn’t the only real historic figure in American Primeval. Shea Whigham’s incredibly charismatic frontiersman Jim Bridger was something of a 19th century legend.

There’s dramatic power in the persecution of the Mormons in their settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois; the conviction and murder of Joseph Smith; and the resultant decision of Brigham Young to lead ...