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 from Latter-day Saint militias to Native peoples and Brigham Young to Jim Bridger.

(Netflix) Joe Tippett plays James Wolsey in an episode of "American Primeval" that depicts the Mountain Meadows Massacre.