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 ...

(RNS) — In September of 1857, more than 100 people on their way from Arkansas to California camped in Southern Utah in a place called Mountain Meadows to rest their horses and livestock before pushing ...

More than a hundred Arkansans were killed on Sept. 11, 1857, in what is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.In early 1857, a wagon train left Northwest Arkansas and headed west, bound for ...

(KUTV) There may be more details than originally thought in one of the bloodiest and darkest chapters in Utah's history. A California archaeologist claims he has found two additional graves related to ...

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.

When I stepped into a Sierra Nevada meadow over 25 years ago, I was struck by the diversity of life, the hub of biological activity — full of birds, frogs, fish and plants. As a wildlife ecologist, I ...

An archaeologist said he may have found the two mass grave sites that hold the bodies of men, women and children murdered at the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. Everett Bassett, an archaeologist ...

A peaceful January afternoon was falling into the muted dusk of a winter evening as we ascended the last mile of Meadow Mountain to its wide-open crest. “I definitely feel like I am part of a secret ...

Kathleen Flake is a religious historian and author of The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Read the full interview » Mountain Meadows may be ...