The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail in the Utah Territory ... War—a conflict some refer to as the nation’s first ...

To help viewers distinguish between fact and fiction, here are answers to some of the questions people have been asking: In 1857–58, Latter-day Saint settlers of Utah Territory waged a war of ...

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 ...

As a territory, Utah came under the direct control of Congress ... Deseret's prospects for statehood seemed dim. During the Civil War, the U.S. government shifted its attention from the Mormons.

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 ...

If Utah was having a cake to celebrate ... In 1848, the U.S. won the Mexican-American war giving the “U.S. military secured control of Mexico after a series of battles, and the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

The camp closed in 1861, when the start of the Civil War took precedence. The story Netflix is trying to tell Several TV ... The United States acquired the area from Mexico the following year and ...