Statement by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also says the Netflix series egregiously mischaracterizes Brigham Young.

Netflix’s new historical drama “American Primeval” is currently the No. 1 series on the site. But how much of the show and its characters are based on the 1857 Utah War?

Netflix's dark new Western series ... 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, and children in southern ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s.

It is seen as one of the darkest chapters in American history – an act of domestic terrorism second only to the Oklahoma City bombing nearly 140 years later. As new Netflix drama ‘American Primeval’ tells the story of violence committed by Mormons but blamed on Native Americans,

American Primeval is set in Utah Territory, but it was not filmed there. Instead, Netflix’s American Primeval was filmed in modern day New Mexico.

Audiences are devouring the grisly Netflix miniseries “American Primeval,” a work of historical fiction centered around the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormon militiamen in southwestern Utah slaughtered nearly an entire wagon train of men,

There’s a new Western series on the block, and Netflix viewers are launching it to the number one spot, despite being so violent.

A month after Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone wrapped its five-season run on Paramount Network, viewers clamoring for a new televised Western have found their answer on Netflix. American Primeval, a new limited series that thrusts audiences into the brutal and volatile world of the American West,

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What does the popular new Netflix series, “American Primeval,” get wrong about the Utah War? Just about everything. Utah historian and author Barbara Jones Brown explains why that matters in the below guest column.