Co-authors of the new book “Vengeance Is Mine” explore the aftermath of the bloodiest stain on LDS history, including how church leaders in southern Utah tried to cover up the crime, how ...

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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.

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 ...

Prologue: Crime meets punishment -- Introduction: A Mormon massacre -- Chapter One. Mormon savagery: murder an' massacretion -- Chapter Two. Circumscribing civilization: the white hellhounds -- ...

The volumes challenge long-standing narratives about the attack, its cover-up and how the atrocity painted Americans’ views of Latter-day Saints.

The date is etched in blood in Utah and Mormon church history and, on a more intimate level, the family trees of people like Karen Maxwell, a mother of eight and choir teacher from Salt Lake City. On ...

Three new books -- including Jon Krakauer's latest -- take a look at some dark moments in the history of Mormonism and the violent effects of sexually rooted religious hysteria.