In Sept. 1857, scores of California-bound emigrants -- mostly from Arkansas -- were murdered in the remote high desert of southern Utah. Only 17 children, 6 years old or younger, were spared. Devout ...

Even now, issues rooted in the era of the Utah War linger. Last September, when the LDS Church formally expressed regret for the massacre of some 120 unarmed members of a wagon train passing through ...

Set during the Utah War of 1857, Peter Berg's limited series lays out a world where love conquers little, indifference is the only path to survival, and wanting anything will only bring death that ...

"The Utah War was catastrophic for those who suffered or died during it, and it was catalytic in advancing Utah along the slow but eventual path to statehood," says Richard E. Turley Jr., assistant ...