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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Star Dane DeHaan and makeup department head Howard Berger explain how they and special makeup effects artist Jamie Kelman ...

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?

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

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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.