American Primeval is fiction. But the Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real event – one with which many viewers might be unfamiliar.

The real massacre was ‘so much more brutal’ — ‘American Primeval’ and the truth about Mountain Meadows How the fictional series stacks up against factual events and characters, ranging ...

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

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

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 ...

Netflix's "American Primeval" starring Taylor Kitsch is partly inspired by the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.

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 ...

Though many of the show’s characters and their narratives are fictionalized, the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre inspired the attack depicted in the first episode.

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 ...

'American Primeval' director Peter Berg explains series finale deaths, Mormon community backlash, prequel idea; and talks Friday Night Lights reboot.

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 a gritty historical Western from director/executive producer Peter Berg. It takes the Mountain Meadows Massacre as its jumping-off point.