We’re excited because we love the history; we love these artifacts and ... can hold special events in the Kirtland Temple or in the Nauvoo buildings, a cumulative six special events a year.

Daniel Wells of the Nauvoo Legion, ordering a militia to "exterminate ... deadliest slaughters of Utah's Indigenous people by white pioneers began 175 years ago this week: The Fort Utah Massacre.

There was also much sickness. Like many others in the pioneer band, Brigham Young came down with "mountain fever." On July 24, after 111 days of travel, a wagon carrying the prostrate Young ...