In recent days, Utah and the adjacent Mormon cultural region have been awash in celebrations of the 1847 entry into the Salt Lake Valley of Brigham Young and the first Mormon pioneers: Parades ...

Brigham Young’s southern Utah wine mission fueled LDS profits, prophecy and alcoholism The Word of Wisdom wasn’t the same back then. Members not only consumed wine but also manufactured it.

Remember the Utah pioneers at these ... Brigham Young, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the one who led the Saints into Utah. Young is buried in ...

At the same time the pioneers tackled problems of crickets, sage brush and drought, they also struggled to find a common version of English, says Brigham Young University professor David Bowie ... one ...

But the settlers and other church leaders pressed him until Jan. 31, 1850, when Young ordered the militia "not to leave the [Utah Valley] until every Indian was out," his general wrote.

What is known about Utah’s early black pioneers — including the many who were slaves — is riveting. ... arriving in the days before Brigham Young did on July 24, 1847.

Celebrating LGBTQ+ stories, for over two decades, on the big screen? Scandalous! But let's not forget the ultimate irony—Brigham's own son, B. Morris Young, occasionally performed in full drag as ...

A Daguerreotype known in historical archives as "Brigham Young and Unknown Wife" shows the founder of the state of Utah with one of his wives. The woman's face has literally been erased from history.

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