In one of the most violent acts of the American frontier, more than 120 pioneers were killed in southwestern Utah. The ...

On September 11, 1857, the Baker-Fancher party was ambushed in southern Utah during a journey from Arkansas to California. Trapped in a five-day siege, their fate was sealed by betrayal from those ...

Mountain Meadows • After 160 years buried in a museum collection, the skull of one the Mountain Meadows Massacre’s youngest victims was laid to rest Saturday in a song-filled ceremony that ...

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 ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre proved a “multiuse tool” for exploring the many areas Mormons were thought to be dangerously outside the bounds of what was called “white civilization. ...

Mountain Meadows Massacre In 1857 an Arkansas wagon train on its way through Southern Utah was attacked by Mormon settlers. Over a hundred people were murdered, with the exception of at least 17 ...

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation is trying to come to an agreement with the land owner for conservation of the sites and wants to give them national monument status.The Mormon church-owned ...

This was the site of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre, which took 120 lives and left an indelible black mark on Utah’s history. Named a National Historic Landmark in 2011, ...

HARRISON -- Two mass-grave sites for victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre have been located in southern Utah, an archaeologist said. Everett Bassett said he found the rock tombs by using ...

In the wake of the many previous accounts of the massacre itself — prominent among them Juanita Brooks' seminal "Mountain Meadows Massacre" in 1950, Will Bagley's "Blood of the Prophets" in 2004 ...

For more than 150 years, an important piece of Arkansas and American history has been relegated to obscurity, but that ended on July 2.