The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a brutal attack on more than a hundred emigrants en route to California in the 1850s. The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows ...

Turley Jr., Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard explored in excruciating detail the infamous and inexcusable episode in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows.” Now comes the follow-up volume ...

Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain ...

The number of graves could increase, however, if an investigation of three rock piles recently discovered adjacent to the Mountain Meadows Massacre site pans out. But the prospect that any of the ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in American Primeval, was a heinous attack orchestrated by the Mormon militia group that led to the deaths of 120 emigrants traveling west through the Utah ...

More than 120 pioneers were killed in a shocking act of betrayal on their journey west. We visited the Mountain Meadows ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture” (UNC Press, May 30). (Disclosure: I was Johnson’s freelance editor as she revised this project from a dissertation into a book.) While it’s ...

That all changed with the darkest incident of the Mormon War, a series of attacks known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict ...

For some of the descendants present on Saturday, the potential graves are finally bringing a kind of closure the different Mountain Meadows Massacre groups have been working toward. Scott Fancher ...

In 1857, Mormons disguised as Paiutes did massacre a group of settlers in a tragedy known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Jim Bridger and Fort Bridger did exist — and both ran afoul of Brigham ...

is not the first interpreter to take on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but she adds a new twist. Whereas historians Juanita Brooks and Will Bagley emphasized the Mormons' religious motivations ...