Columnist Will Bagley and Brigham Young University Professor Ron Walker present opposing viewpoints to the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...
Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
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Features & Gunfights
Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad "Center My Heart Boys!!" March 28, 1877 The execution of John D. Lee was supposed to be a secret, but as...
Mormons in the Movies
From Mormonsploitation to edification, Latter-Day Saints Cinema runs the gamut The early screen portrayals of Mormonism were not...
An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
She assembled artisans, Historians and linguists to keep their three Nations’ portrayals accurate Not so long ago, in many Western...
The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
A Ute Elder Shares His Thoughts on the So-Called “Utah War.” A skilled Paiute hunter demonstrated his marksmanship in 1873. Although...
Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
Does American Primeval Tell The True Story? The two most compelling characters in American Primeval are, not coincidentally, the two...
The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
Pathfinder Jim Bridger tangles with Prophet Brigham Young Jim Bridger was one of the most skilled mountain men in American history. In...
The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows “The scene of the massacre, even at this late date, was horrible to look upon. Women’s hair, in...
The War Before the War
They brought sin with them “He who is without sin can cast the first stone…” John 8:7 As the sun rose across the United States on...
Mountain Meadows
Making peace with a violent past Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and...
Black Gold on the Western Frontier
Black Gold on the Western Frontier The land Spanish explorers called “Colorado” was an untamed wilderness in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet...
Trails of the Old West
DISCOVERING AMERICA’S HISTORIC FRONTIER TOWNS From Arizona’s sunbaked deserts to Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, America’s historic frontier...