St. George • Many experts agree that four mass burial sites are the final resting places of most members of a California-bound emigrant wagon train from Arkansas who were slaughtered in 1857 by Latter ...

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar. The massacre took place on Sept. 11, 1857, in Utah Territory.

Now we bring you a story about a site in southwest Utah that took 150 years to tell the truth. It's part of our series, "Off The Mark," about the nation's fascinating and sometimes completely wrong ...

Though highly fictionalized and only loosely based on actual history and geography, the popular new Netflix series “American Primeval” is stirring up national interest in a long-forgotten but ...

In Sept. 1857, scores of California-bound emigrants -- mostly from Arkansas -- were murdered in the remote high desert of southern Utah. Only 17 children, 6 years old or younger, were spared. Devout ...

In April 1857, near Harrison, 120 to 150 settlers started a journey toward the promise of a better life in California. Before they could reach their destination, a party of Mormons (known formally as ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" is inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre is depicted in episode 1 and is the inciting incident for the main characters' journey. The ...

Netflix is releasing a new six-episode series of fictionalized history on Thursday morning that includes Brigham Young and uses the Mountain Meadows Massacre as what the streamer calls “the inciting ...