An Embrace Of The “Title of Liberty” During an April 2014 standoff with federal officials, supporters and members of the Bundy militia cited Book of Mormon passages centering on Captain Moroni.

On Monday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement criticizing the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, by more than a dozen armed ...

On Sept. 11, 1857, a Mormon militia in southern Utah seized a wagon train from Arkansas and brutally murdered 120 people. Soon after, records of the event were destroyed and Mormon leaders ...

In the supercharged atmosphere of war, this was enough; local Mormon militia decided to attack the emigrants with the assistance of Paiute Indians. They struck at dawn on September 7, 1857 ...

And they were spared only because they were considered “too young to tell tales” by the Mormon militia. The series seems to depict the militia as marauders just coming into the camp.

On the wildflower-studded slopes of the Ozarks, where memories run long and family ties run thick, a little-known and long-ago chapter of history still simmers. On Sept. 11, 1857, a wagon train ...

a secret Mormon group called the Sons of Dan, or Danites, responded in kind. That August, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an order to his state militia directing that the Mormons "be ...

Wild and Untamed. The United States Army, Mormon Militia, Native Americans, and Pioneers. All locked in a brutal war for survival. Caught in the bloody crossfire are every man, woman and child who ...

However, before the end of American Primeval Episode 1, tensions erupt between the pioneers briefly camping in Utah Territory and the local Mormon militia. What follows is a grotesque massacre in ...

The six-episode Western miniseries American Primeval hit Netflix on January 9, 2024, taking viewers on a journey through the brutality of 1850s America as a fight for land ensues between ...

Spoilers for all of American Primeval, now streaming on Netflix** American Primeval Episode 1 ends with the innocent couple tour literally asunder by the Mormon militia, the Nauvoo Legion ...