What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

By exposing the brutality and moral contradictions that shaped the frontier, the series challenges viewers to sit with uncomfortable truths.

“American Primeval” brings elements of both storylines, with the murderous battle to settle Mormon-ruled Utah intertwined with stories of people just passing through, trying to get somewhere else and ...

And though this most recent horror-filled entry of “American Primeval” feels shocking, it is reviving a pattern that began long ago. From the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 ...

The instigators were members of the Mormon militia, some dressed as Indians. As for the battle scenes in “American Primeval,” the rapid-fire arrows being shot throughout the first battle are ...

Culture, religion, and community all collide in the limited series 'American Primeval,' a harrowing dramatization of the deadly clash between Natives, pioneers, Mormon soldiers, and the US government ...

The Mormons’ establishment of Salt Lake City and surrounding cities in 1847 was based on the violent dispossession of Indigenous communities. As shown in American Primeval, the Utah War and the ...

If you threw me into the world of "American Primeval," I would probably last a day tops. It takes place in 1857 Utah. The US Army, Mormons (aka Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and Native ...

that became American Primeval, his dramatisation of the brutal war of 1857 between pioneers, the US Army, Native Americans and the Mormons. As the caption at the start of the series says ...