Netflix's American Primeval is set against the backdrop of the Utah War, and here's what happened in the often-forgotten U.S. conflict.

‘American Primeval’ and the Utah War — a historian’s take on the real men, real militias and real massacres The show’s depiction of hood-wearing, sinister Mormons slaughtering emigrants ...

The acquisition of this expansive territory with the issue of slavery unresolved "lit the fuse that eventually set off the Civil War in 1861," according to the .

A tense frontier. A brutal mass killing. Netflix’s newest hit miniseries, American Primeval, portrays life and grisly death in 1850s Utah —a gritty look at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a ...

AFFAIRS IN UTAH.; Influence of the Overland Mails on the Prospority of the Territory--Impulse Given to Farming--The War News among the Saints, &c.

But more recently, Utah’s congressional delegation took what could only be called an extraordinary step—arguing that the status quo could potentially “justify” civil war.

The US Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history settling the question of slavery once and for all. It was by far the bloodiest conflict that the United ...

‘American Primeval’ gets its hands dirty portraying LDS leader Brigham Young and the Utah War Netflix series is set amid the real-life clashes between the U.S. Army, Latter-day Saints and the ...

The Brink of War One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army marched into Utah prepared to battle Brigham Young and his Mormon militia ...

1857, The Mormon War "This plays out against the backdrop of the American Union itself tearing apart." -- Ken Verdoia, journalist As a territory, Utah came under the direct control of Congress.

A decade later the Utah War of 1857-1858 is now considered to be the nation’s largest and most costly military exercise sandwiched between the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Civil War ...