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

Brigham Young was determined to finish the temple, and he became the next leader and prophet of the Saints. In 1845, the Saints knew they could not stay in the city they had built up from a swamp ...

This story is sponsored by Six Days in August. "Six Days in August" is a new movie that opened nationwide on Oct. 10. This independent film is about the 1844 succession crisis in Nauvoo following ...

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 ...

Aug. 8, 1844: A few days after returning to Nauvoo, Brigham Young, along with the Quorum of the Twelve, is sustained to assume the leadership of the church. Before being sustained, ...

The Brigham Young Family Cemetery, though surrounded these days by houses and apartments, ... including Kirtland in Ohio and Nauvoo in Illinois, primarily to locate old structures. ...

Latter-day Saints imagine Brigham Young as a commanding theocrat, who mobilized a crestfallen and beleaguered people after the ">death of their prophet-founder</a>, who led them on an epic exodus ...

Even while Smith was alive and running the church, Nauvoo prohibited interracial marriage and restricted voting and office-holding to white men. ... Brigham Young was clearly a racist.

Photo: Six Days in August movie. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, by this time led by Brigham Young, also declared their claim, and the majority of the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo opted for ...