Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific ...
Netflix’s “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s really nothing new under the Western sun.
When people don’t see themselves, their forebears, or their history reflected in contextualized and nuanced ways, it’s easy ...
The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church ...
Set during the infamous Utah War in the late 1850s, Netflix's latest bingeworthy series, American Primeval, is a frontier Western that chronicles one of the harshest times in United States history.
The real Fort Bridger is much smaller — and set in an entirely different state — than the one featured in ‘American Primeval’ ...
As a whole, these books take apart the heroic myths that “American Primeval” critiques with its blunt-force violence — even as the show indulges in some of those myths. (For instance ...