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.

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 ...

We never said we're making a documentary and that it's all based 100 percent ... that reinforce stereotypes that are both inaccurate and harmful. "As to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which the series ...

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 ...

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 Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah ...

Although it is a fictional show, it is rooted in and around historical events of the day, with the Mountain Meadows massacre assuming a prominent role in the narrative. As revealed by American ...

The events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which took place in early September 1857, and came to their horrific conclusion on the 11 September, have been called “the darkest deed of the 19th ...

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 ...

Seventeen children who were 6 years old or younger were spared. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stemmed from a feud between the Latter-day Saints (more commonly referred to as Mormons) and the ...

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 ...