Mormon Battalion members gather for a photo at the 50-year anniversary of their enlistment with the U.S. Army. Kristina Kaufman works on the Mormon Battalion Project in the Center for Family History ...

July 24th is Utah’s unique holiday. It commemorates the arrival of religious pioneers fleeing persecution in the Midwest. For many in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their arrival ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a standard crossing-the-Plains narrative: Pioneers traversed the Mississippi River on the ice led by Brigham Young. Everything was well ...

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. The Mountain Meadows ...

Now the second largest city in metro Phoenix, Mesa was once a small community of Mormon pioneers. It's home to the Chicago Cubs and the Athletics spring training facilities. Mesa covers more than 138 ...

The year is 1847. Mormon pioneers are trekking toward the deserts of the Mountain West. Their new leader, Brigham Young, is on a quest to find a new plot of Earth, far away from an unfriendly federal ...

Back in the late 19th century, the pioneers traveled by wagon or train. Neither conveyance is used much in northern Mexico these days. I arrived in El Paso from Los Angeles via airplane, and would ...

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