Their destination was Utah Territory, land the U.S. acquired from Mexico and Texas after the Mexican-American War. But though LDS members attempted to found their own state there—the proposed ...

Though highly fictionalized and only loosely based on actual history and geography, the popular new Netflix series “American ... Saint settlers of Utah Territory waged a war of resistance ...

The civil war, considered here as now completely inaugurated ... to "flee from the wrath to come," by a hasty exodus through Utah to Nevada or California, in search of that peace which it is ...

American Primeval takes place within the years of the Utah War, and here is everything you need to know about the real-life ...

These were basic threats to American values and feelings..." As a territory, Utah came under the direct ... for statehood seemed dim. During the Civil War, the U.S. government shifted its ...

The history of Buffalo Soldiers — all-Black military regiments — in Utah is rich but often buried. A new driving trail, ...

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. In a friend of ...

Netflix‘s new western show American Primeval takes place in 1857 Utah Territory. We’re still four years out from the American Civil War and it won’t be another forty two years until Utah ...

That tension erupted into what would become the Civil War. An increased number of early Mormon settlers arrived to the Utah territory, which proved to be challenging in itself. Some of the ...