More than 120 pioneers were killed in a shocking act of betrayal on their journey west. We visited the Mountain Meadows ...

The number of graves could increase, however, if an investigation of three rock piles recently discovered adjacent to the Mountain Meadows Massacre site pans out. But the prospect that any of the ...

Turley Jr., Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard explored in excruciating detail the infamous and inexcusable episode in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows.” Now comes the follow-up volume ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a brutal attack on more than a hundred emigrants en route to California in the 1850s. The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows ...

is not the first interpreter to take on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but she adds a new twist. Whereas historians Juanita Brooks and Will Bagley emphasized the Mormons' religious motivations ...

That all changed with the darkest incident of the Mormon War, a series of attacks known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict ...

Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture” (UNC Press, May 30). (Disclosure: I was Johnson’s freelance editor as she revised this project from a dissertation into a book.) While it’s ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in American Primeval, was a heinous attack orchestrated by the Mormon militia group that led to the deaths of 120 emigrants traveling west through the Utah ...

For some of the descendants present on Saturday, the potential graves are finally bringing a kind of closure the different Mountain Meadows Massacre groups have been working toward. Scott Fancher ...

The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 is one of the worst mass killings in American history. But the signage of the site did not say who was responsible for the bloodshed. David Condos of Member ...