Fundamentally, Brigham Young was a man of peace; if his tongue occasionally slipped, his actions did not, writes Latter-day ...

The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...

Brigham Young’s role in the Mountain Meadows massacre ... began to spread that they had been involved in the death of Joseph Smith the previous decade. Young’s right-hand man John D Lee ...

Born on August 29, 1877, Brigham Young, became a devout follower of Joseph Smith's teaching and eventually became the Church's second president. Young was nicknamed 'American Moses', for leading ...

Joseph Smith announces a revelation setting up the ... Smith and most of his followers -- including a new member named Brigham Young -- leave Kirtland for Independence, Missouri, where Smith ...

The same goes for the show’s depiction of polygamous prophet Brigham Young ... particularly the murder of the faith’s founder, Joseph Smith, and his brother Hyrum in Illinois.

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 was imprisoned on false ...