Concerned about the Mormons’ expanding theocracy in the West — Brigham Young was not only the president of the church but also Utah’s governor — President James Buchanan’s advisers urged ...

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 ...

Along the way, however, they find themselves in the middle of the budding war between native tribesmen, the U.S. army and Mormon renegades under the leadership of LDS president Brigham Young (Kim ...

Hospitals and clinics that have offered gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth reacted in a variety of ways to an ...

and Brigham himself is king, priest, lawgiver, and chief polygamist.” Young himself refused to acknowledge any authority other than the Almighty’s, declaring that “Any President of the ...

The same goes for the show’s depiction of polygamous prophet Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the first governor of the territory.

“American Primeval” is set in the 1850s and depicts the Church’s second president, the late Brigham Young; Latter-day Saints; and the indigenous groups who lived in the area where the state of Utah ...

Specifically, the second president of the Church, President Brigham Young, is “mischaracterized as a villainous, violent fanatic,” the Church’s news release says. The show also depicts the Mountain ...

Moody has also challenged President Biden's immigration policies ... He is a graduate of Brigham Young University. You can follow him on Twitter at @JosephAddington.

Among these many groups, the most prominent group was the Mormons, headed by their second president, Brigham Young, who ordered the Mountain Meadow Massacre in Episode 1. American Primeval boasts an ...