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 ...

Producers openly admit the six-part series dropping Thursday is highly fictionalized. It centers around 1857 involving the Utah War, Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah ...

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 ...

Furthermore, it will also surprise nearly every viewer that the slaughter carried out in the series is based on truth, known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and remains one of the darkest ...

Case in point: the first episode's bloody massacre is a dramatization of a real incident that occurred in Utah. The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 claimed the lives of 120 men, women ...

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.

It is produced by Peter Berg, Alexander H. Gayner, Eric Newman, and Mark L. Smith. The Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in American Primeval, was a heinous attack orchestrated by the Mormon ...

The very first episode of American Primeval crescendoes with the horrific events of the Mountain Meadows massacre, a real life event wherein the Mormon militia known as the Nauvoo Legion disguised ...

Berg also responds to criticisms of the representation of Mormon church leader Brigham Young and the line he wouldn’t cross when it came to violence depicted in the events surrounding the Mountain ...

While the six-part series is centered around real places, a few real events and some real people — ranging from the Utah War and the Mountain Meadows Massacre to mountain man Jim Bridger and ...