As you watch Netflix's "American Primeval," learn more about a key moment in the first episode: the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...

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Netflix thriller, American Primeval, is shocking audiences with its 'violence and brutality' and is even based on a ...

The highly fictionalized six-part series drops Thursday. It centers around 1857 events in the Utah War as the federal ...

American Primeval has just landed on Netflix and the Western series is a fictional story set in 1857, but it is based on real ...

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?

In 1857, Mormons disguised as Paiutes did massacre a group of settlers in a tragedy known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Jim Bridger and Fort Bridger did exist — and both ran afoul of Brigham ...

American Primeval, a new Netflix limited series about the Utah War in the 1850s, isn’t afraid to dramatize the horrors of the ...

With a historical setting and real-life inspiration, it’s fair for Netflix viewers to ask: is American Primeval based on a true story?

American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar. The massacre took place on Sept. 11, 1857, in Utah Territory.