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.

With Days of '47, one of Utah's biggest Pioneer Day celebrations, around the corner, many people have been wondering what it is and what the history is behind it. Much of it, due in part to the Latter ...

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.

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 ...

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.