An Englishman's journey to America and how he became a frontiersman who established settlements throughout eastern Idaho ...

Discover why Utah is called the Beehive State, delving into the historical, cultural, and religious significance of the ...

Shutterstock Kanab, Utah Ten Mormon families set up camp in 1870 in what the Paiute called “place of the willows.” They built ...

Bruce Bastian, a computer programmer and LGBTQ rights activist who died last year, had lived in the gated 25,000-square-foot ...

In 1847, the Mormons staying at Winter Quarters (today's Florence neighborhood in Omaha) set up a farm 16 miles north of land ...

The insects earned their common name from their role in a notable 1848 incident involving Mormon settlers in Utah.

Mormon crickets swarm Holden and Fillmore, creating a moving pavement illusion. Residents describe the insects as noisy and destructive, damaging gardens and lawns.

A reader stated as fact that it was once legal in Missouri to kill a Mormon. I was skeptical, but the truth is stranger and scarier than I thought.

This historical fiction depicts the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, as well as broader hostilities between the US government and Mormons at Salt Lake City during the Utah War of 1857–58.

When Congress met in early 1858, it rejected President Buchanan’s proposal to raise additional troops to send to Utah, forcing Buchanan to broker a peace settlement with Mormon leaders instead.

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s.

Director Peter Berg told Tudum in January 2025 that he was inspired to make American Primeval after reading about the Utah War, a confrontation between the Mormon people and the U.S. government over ...