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.

Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" is inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The massacre is depicted in episode 1 and is the inciting incident for the main characters' journey.

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

• Historian Richard E. Turley Jr., who co-wrote the highly acclaimed “Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy,” talks about the mass killings in this story and an accompanying podcast.

American Primeval: All About the Mormon Nauvoo Legion and the Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of violent attacks that occurred between September 7–11, 1857 ...

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

A dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Netflix limited series follows Sara Rowell ... American Primeval takes place 50 years after the events of the 2015 film.

A tense frontier. A brutal mass killing. Netflix’s newest hit miniseries, American Primeval, portrays life and grisly death in 1850s Utah—a gritty look at the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a ...

The efforts of which culminated in the gruesome 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, depicted in the Netflix miniseries, that left some 120 travelers dead. Related Stories TV ...

Peter Berg directs an epic six-part drama about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, in which more than 100 settlers were murdered by militant Mormons.

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.